Ice/Wind clears a ton of important status effects. If you actually want to discuss the top end of the AO combo meta, I’d recommend the post I linked in the blurred section where I discuss it in more detail.
In short, Wind/Ice is worse at the combo, but the combo isn’t what makes it good (frozen combos actually kinda suck - way too easy to clear). What makes it good is that it clears (almost) every important status effect and has good matchups against every other high tier combo.
You’re not expecting to use the freeze synergy much - the main draw is disrupting everyone else’s synergies and then soloing them with wind.