Oh yeah, there's a certain thrill in playing a powerful character - that I remember well. However, it immediately goes sour when no one likes you because of your power playing and then everyone tries to power creep your character. So you start to power creep to keep up with the power creep...
Playing OP characters gets boring after a while. Take this from someone who has played OP characters that pulled bullshit out of their pants to "win", it downright sucks!