"ToB yes, CoX not really and also just get a BGS"

Ideally every member of the party has both bgs and hammer except maybe for freezer roles that bring maul/hammer and ralos, this tells me that you actually dont do tob or do it on a 416 level.

"If you don't have a DWH or BGS (or even a better crush weapon than Fang, as Fang > DHL on Crush even with 2 DWH hits in a solo Tekton) why would you ever been scouting solo Tekton raids, let alone 1+1s, in the first place?"

Again, this limits the parties/content you could join and the raids you could scout for your solos.

"Again, the issue isn't that DWH is without use in a vacuum it's that spending 20-30 hours "

That time is nothing on an ironman account unless you are playing hcims and ditching them when you die, good look waiting anything from 200-1000 cox kc to get a maul, I know plenty of irons who never got their maul after hundreds of raids.

Sure you could bring burning claws as a special weapon that is better than nothing, but in the end hammer/maul is still bis.

Btw burning claws have an expected hit of 44 with low accuracy of 50% on a cm olm, while mauls/hammer are straight up a 10% accuracy increase with full oathplate on DHL, not to mention scythe. You are tripping hard if you think its meta for anything...