agree with the sentiment, but don't have a fix. long was well balanced, and felt comparable to playing tetris with pentominoes - at the highest level you could probably go for thousands of lines, but it takes a lot of effort to reach that. I think not including a hold feature contributed to this balance by making the stacking harder
mini, vertical, and long 2 are all death by speed
twisted, repeat, lava, SUPER, and tilted are all marathons
iirc letter and double were death by speed and marathon, respectively, but maybe they were well balanced