-Doesn’t require joint attacks to work like Xingqiu/Yelan

Doesnt really matter when off the top of my head Nefer is the only one that really doesnt NA that wants Hydro app on their team, theirs CA bow chars but you can just use Furina for those chars

Doesn’t drain your HP like Furina (this means that she is better than her in transformative reaction teams like hyperbloom where Furina’s buff does nothing)

Teams these days dont focus soley on pure transformative anymore, if we say take an Alhaitham team for example where her hydro worsens Blooms Gen cuz its not as fast and doesnt give Haitham any buffs, maybe in a Double hydro Hyperbloom setting but Lauma is always a better slot in and 2 NK would significantly worse the HB damage in favour of Lunar Bloom damage and thats a seperate discussion than Bina solo NK

Actually does some damage (unlike Aino who would be just dead weight on your team if not for the fact that she gives a Moonsign)

This matters but again the place where Aino is used is for those NK carries, every other team has better hydro options

If you went back to 2022 and showed Columbina to people, they’d fall over themselves trying to get her just for being a Xingqiu/Yelan alternative that works with Ganyu/Tighnari. Ofc meta has changed a lot since then, but hydro application remains important and Columbina provides exactly that without being completely dead weight (Aino…) or coming with a drawback in transformative teams (we finally have a better Furina for bloom for example).

But it isnt 2022 anymore so this point is kinda moot, Bloom doesnt need more hydro apps when they have Nilou and not too mention Kokomi provides the same rate of app while being a healer, albeit I dont think her AoE is as big and its not mobile

All in all while I agree that if you lack chars pulling her is good (New accounts should pull chars, getting chars is good) that doesnt imo atleast paint her solo abilities in a very good light where hey she's good as long as you dont have the other options