Anyone else find Specters to be vastly under power?

Maybe I should not say that they are under powered. Honestly in isolated space the specters are great, I love the variety of options they present to summoners and non-summoners that dabble with pets.

Why I feel they are under powered is the spirit cost to have them in play. I am going to try and compare 2 similar style summons. So, I grab a frost wrath and with all my discounts go them down to 50 spirit, run them with 3 support gems, and they seemed like money. Frost wraiths slinging their ice and every now and then getting off a freeze. Started to rum maps, and the speed I was clearing seemed slow. So, I backed them out, and for the same spirit can run twice the number of frost mages (yes the occult skeletons). My clear speeds immediately shot up, and I am pretty much freezing everything except higher end magic and rare mobs.

I have tried this out would other specters, and was even using the famed Vaal Guards, which are consided the best of the best by some (btw running 6 of them will kill your FPS, but so much fire). Point being it seems the spirit reservation for a specter is costly to prohibitively high for the amount of damage or support they add to your party. IMHO they (GGG) would need to drop the spirit cost by about 25% to put them inline with skeleton options, though I am sure that are some that may need more or less to be useful.

I absolutely love them for the variety, but I don’t use them because they’re terrible DPS per spirit.

I think the main issue is the high spirit costs. Like. 50 spirit for an ant? Even enemies that work mainly in groups cost at least 30 spirit.

Some spectres can be good. Specially those with elemental attacks and spells. Elemental spectres seem to be a lot better to hit ailments than skeletons.