Dragon wand is weak because it didn’t make sense.

Initially Huey was proposed at mid game feathered serpent that would drop a mid game powered wand. Reddit bullied Jagex into making it a dragon and that it must drop a dragonbane wand/staff. The former is due to merchers being upset because they thought it was a dragon. The latter’s logic was never “mid game dragonbane weapon good”, it was “crossbow and lance exist, thus wand must”.

Fast forward to today and the mid game weapon that uses an attack style that’s notoriously bad on dragons is weak and Reddit is mad.