You're not wrong. The preponderance of evidence suggests CBT isn't more effective on average than other methods and they're all overestimated due to publication

You're not wrong. The preponderance of evidence suggests CBT isn't more effective on average than other methods and they're all overestimated due to publication bias: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/effects-of-psychotherapy-for-adult-depression-are-overestimated-a-metaanalysis-of-study-quality-and-effect-size/6541520535092D2C3FF0CC3DE45F189E https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici... To be fair, there's also evidence of publication bias with medication, and there's good evidence psychotherapy works in general. But your hunch isn't too far off; there's stronger evidence for common factors in psychotherapy mediating effects. The idea of CBT being the gold standard as stated in the article says more about how the field and public discusses the research than the method itself.