The consternation is easy to understand, if you can think about it.

It's no different to any other form of 'dumbing down,' if you've ever felt
harrowing disappointment at the complexity of something being torn away to
suit unwashed plebs, you can understand this. Well read people have been
exposed to dragons in works of fiction throughout most of their lifetime. And
it didn't start with Tolkien either, especially not a Tolkien film. Those dragons
have always shared similar traits, such as having six limbs. It isn't exactly
efficient at first glance (especially according to reality's rules), but neither is
the centaur, chimera, manticore, or basilisk. The unwashed mendicants who
complain about this fail to understand so many things.

The first and most important of which is that fiction itself is a part of the
realm of imagination. And a dimwit trying to convince me of the inefficiency
of a dragon is like them trying to convince me of the inefficiency of magic.
Their mind is so small that they can only miss the point, their absolute
abortion of creative thinking means that they have no choice other than to
live in the reality they know, with oversimplified versions of the rules they
believe it abides by. And they examine dragons from that perspective -- one
so flawed that it vexes them and taxes their limited capacities for internal
thinking. For a creative, intelligent, and well read mind, figuring out the
complex rules of another reality entirely -- distinct from our own -- is fun!

Many authors have tackled it, from Flight of Dragons to the Pern Universe,
and it always makes for an enjoyable, satisfying read. Being a scholar of
another reality is something clever people call 'escapism,' and that word goes
so far beyond mere dreams of attractive sexual partners and fast cars. A
person of limited intelligence is grounded in reality though and can only
fantasise as far as it, never beyond it. They can't conceive even the
possibility that some tweaks to physics and their own hilariously flawed
misconceptions of how a dragon might work would allow them to not only be
'realistic' (an oxymoronic descriptor in and of itself in this context, but one
that less erudite minds always seem to need) but also perfectly efficient. I'm
boggled by people so slack-jawed in their befuddlement that they believe a
dragon must share an ambulatory system in common with earth creatures.
Proper sci-fi authors would scoff at such a silly notion, as do I. For example, a
dragon could just as easily be a life-form far more foreign, and considering
the beasts originate in realities capable of complex fabrication systems, one
might ask why dragons couldn't be silicon in their makeup. It's typical that
the unwashed are always xenophobic enough to be carbon chauvinists.

So these... Dryverns, these mutt hybrids only exist to appease minds so

sparse and devoid of knowing. If we could have them read more, then such
constructs to appease the unthinking might not be necessary. The Western
dragon as it's properly realised -- with six limbs -- has been around since the
word was first spoken. Plenty of resources to support that for those who read.
It's just that thanks to the Internet, reality televesision, and grimderped
'gritty, realistic' fantasy fiction (it hurt me to write that)? Well, the average
amounts of wisdom, knowledge, and creative thinking a person might have
are in a freefall plummet. So these dryverns were made to appease them and
soothe their collectively furrowing brows. It's endemic of a growing stupidity
that might have one believing that Idiocracy was an insightful, clairvoyant
documentary of the future, rather than a mere comedic film born of poor
taste.

What next? Shall we amputate the forelegs of pegasi solely because the
'unrealistic,' six-limbed features of such fictitious animals make the dull mind
grumble? Can you imagine how that would look? Oh, so majestic I'm sure.
And that's how dryverns look to any mind able to think, including my own. Put
simply, we're living through a torrent of mutt hybrids, "dragons for stupid
people' to be blunt. Just but one of the casualties to idiocy. I mourn the
incredible institution of inimitable imagination of fantasy past.

Why is it so wrong to want dragons for intelligent people rather than dumbed
down dryverns? After all, isn't fixing Beth's dumbing down part of the reason
why the Nexus exists? So think on that, if you are indeed able, and perhaps
begin to realise why some of us have such a distaste for dryverns; The
'dragon' that exists only because the unwashed masses can't comprehend
the meaning of 'fiction' or 'fantasy.' So both fiction and fantasy is sorely
dumbed down and oversimplified for them. And worse, they're now brutish,
inelegant, and exclusively male to appeal to the 'alpha' mentality so common
amongst troglodytes. Have you noticed that, that the 'dragons' in Skyrim are
exclusively male? They're not aiming for bright, clever people as their
primary demographic, eh?

So, as the television is the idiot's lantern, the dryvern is the idiot's dragon.