I think a Milton Friedman quote is appropriate here:

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman

Equality before the law does not change the reality that none of us are the same. I'm better at some things than some people, I'm worse at others. What freedom before the law allows us to do is to find those things that work for us, to find our own way. The only way governments can change that is by force, in effect, pitting one group against another (however you want to define the group. There are an infinite number of ways to do it). This is tribalism and societies that follow it tear themselves apart.