Been a while since I've looked at naruto to be honest, but I suppose I have a predilection to playing Uchiha or a Hyuga, however this is with full awareness of that both ocular jutsu have their strengths especially on a Genin when not taken care of. Byakugon at least stayed at a relative strength level as seen in Shippuden to where even super fast Lee couldn't beat Neji since it's not just 360 view but also that would mean Neji could still react to and fight off Lee in a spar. Where as with what happens to Sharingan.... shippuden made it a bit ridiculous and I dislike it from that forward. I like the base Naruto level of coolness and ability it gave with learning etc but I also like to remember that it's not supposed to be common for Uchiha to acquire originally even themselves, even without Sharingan I like the Uchiha has a clan I suppose from the firejutsu available and their place in the village before they were all killed.

We never did get to see Sharingan vs Byakugon in a real good sense, kinda sad since I think that would have been an interesting fight especially if it was like Sasuke vs Neji in the chuunin exams. That would have given us a far better relative strength of what were relatively normal Kekkai Genkai in terms of strength at the time.

I think when I was in one before I ran like a Sarutobi once which is pretty much a 'normal' clan without much special.

Edit: I also think the whole 'curse of hatred thing' is silly... Sasuke got WAY to edgy for me which is sad since I liked how he fought along with people like neji, Rock Lee in terms of how 'fun' it was.