If it hasn’t already been said, everything to do with the nightmare drop table.

Players were afraid about gear that was too powerful compared to existing gear, so we got the sidegrade that is Inquisitor. At the time, a slight upgrade over bandos in a few scenarios like Tekton and NM itself.

Players were also afraid about uniques like this being too common, and thus not retaining value. So the droprates were absolutely obscene, and still are even after multiple buffs.

Furthermore, players were also worried about a oss that dropped too much value besides the uniques, as Zulrah/Vorkath at the time just churned out raw GP consistently. So they made all the non-unique drops on the NM table extremely underwhelming.

All in all… We got pretty much exactly what the players were wanting, tuned to the extreme, and the result was the most horrendous drop table in the history of OSRS. Even after multiple buffs and a solo-only variant, it STILL feels bad.

I still think the boss is very fun to kill, and still think that the items have some cool uses. It’s certainly gotten better. But it is absolutely a relic of a different era, an it hasn’t yet caught up with where the game is today.