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NS choke is great once you get the subtleties of the mechanics down, which is tricky. Most people apply it like a crank and don't get the squeeze right, similar to how some have trouble making darces and arm triangles pure chokes and they get cranky.
There just aren't many people doing it or teaching it correctly.
I worked with a buddy that was a brown belt (this was a few weeks before he was promoted to black by Relson) that had never really had it broken down. After about five or ten minutes of some demonstrations and adjustments, he was NAILING it, immediate tap, clean, pure choke, zero crank.
I would imagine that you just haven't worked closely with someone that really understands the finishing mechanics of the choke.
One thing I'd add to this is that I became dramatically better at the NS choke when I started copying Marcelo and setting it up in side control.
It's not that easy to get the choking arm deep from north south with the guy planting his head on the mat. But you can snake the arm in real deep from side control then transition to north south after you've wrapped the neck. Just glides in like room temperature butter on hot toast.