First, it’s Sisko. Not giving you shit, just letting you know.
Second, I didn’t mind it that much but you’re right that there were a lot of avenues but Sisko is shown a few times to be insanely emotional in comparison to Picard. JL tends to be a bit more methodical and logical about stuff, almost going down a Vulcan-like path of logic. Sisko, on the other hand, is not really like that. Sure he thinks things out. He will plan shit out. He’ll try to be methodical but he’s also incredibly prone to just outbursts of emotion. Sisko has a very basic level of control over his emotions. He can keep them in check but often he doesn’t. Look at the intro between Picard and Sisko as an example. He loses his shit at Picard because of the Borg stuff and it takes him a while for him to get it in check enough to have a discussion with Picard without lashing out at him.
He was so upset at Michael Eddington that he goes on a fucking revenge tour with a barely functioning Defiant to try and take him down and that’s ignoring the gassing a planet part because one could argue (although I disagree with it) that he was making a logical decision there due to his bit earlier about realizing he needs to play the villain. Sisko realizes that Garak killed the Romulan Ambassador and fucking assaults him in his store, throwing him around and punching him in the face. Speaking of punching people in the face, HE PUNCHED GOD IN THE FACE. I’m sorry, but that’s not logical. That is one hell of an emotional decision to be so annoyed you punch God.
Sisko being set up in that opening with Picard as an emotional hothead honestly feels pretty true to character. While they had differences in philosophy, they were way more different in the sense of who was more emotional than the other. I liked the highlighting of that personally but I can see why one did not.