steel is better but I'd rather have an IGL that the other 4 players actually want to play with. A leader that the others don't want to play with sounds like the recipe for a terrible team with lots of internal issues so I'd rather have ec1s :)
I dont think it's steels fault he wants to play with people who actually want to play the game, Im pretty sure nitr0 is the only person he had a problem with, maybe hiko too.