I can understand what you are saying to some degree, but a .223 pistol is capable of dealing 140 damage eye crits which usually knockout and blind an opponent too.
I think this falls under the same category as me finding tesla helms OP and there are 3 factors that all effect eachother when considering this.
1. Critical bypasses are extremely strong, because they only occur along with the highest damage multiplier of a crit and because they reduce armor values by 100%, sure they are rare, but they are crazy strong, there is no denying.
2. Energy weapons in general deal much more damage than SG in regards to single shots and as such the bypass crits deal monumental damage (alien blaster bypass crit can deal 230 damage).
3. This seems to be because tesla helmets are so easily available, I.E. the 223 pistol and sniper rifle do far less damage, but no armor in the game can fully shut them down. Tesla plain shuts down EW aside from bypass crits and because of this, EW damage is generally just higher.
My thoughts are, nerf back teslas resistances a bit, nerf back EW damage a bit at the same time, and alter bypasses to only penetrate 50% of armor values.
That would stop eye crits that KO, blind, bypass and deal 230 damage, while also stopping EW crits vs telsa doing 10 damage.