Why a big flap over steroids, lesser nations might be able to use it as an equalizer?

With the Bond’s trial incident going on all these years behind steroids is it really that big of a flap? What is the difference in someone gaining an edge because they have the bucks to equip themselves with hi-tech expensive swimming gloves, carbon composite bikes, NASCAR designed sleds, etc? In international competition like the Olympics and such the nations with deep pockets don’t have an advantage over poor nations that can’t afford that type of gear? With steroids it would seem to even out some events because the athlete can enhance themselves they don’t have to have $30,000 for a high tech feather light composite bike just to keep up. And steroids alone will not make a super athlete, if a basketball player takes steroids he won’t be transformed into Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson, he will still have to know how to dribble and shoot. If Berry Bonds had taken steroids but could not hit what good would it have done, it would be like having a Ferrari with 390hp but no wheels, you could not do anything with it?