This is really a small thing and I’m not that upset but Reef Drakes are horrible to fight. Fortunately they are very easy to just avoid and forget they even exist in the game.
They aren’t ‘challenging’ in the slightest they just suck to fight. They have a ‘pull’ that also knocks you down for 2-3 seconds and they use confusion. They don’t generally hurt you while you’re knocked down so it’s not like that’s even an issue.
It’s really not fun fighting an enemy that takes 3 times longer to die than it should just because of silly mechanics that force you to sit around doing nothing. People don’t like not having control of their character and/or having to sit and wait while unable to act. It seems like Anet understood this for PvP but somehow it didn’t translate over to PvE.
Sidenote: I imagine many people feel much the same about Risen. Pull -> Knockdown -> Knockback -> Bored.