Ok, I loved Makin’ Magic in TS1 (my absolute favourite magic pack of all time still), and I loved the dragons in particular. (TS3 dragons, a store item, just didn’t compare). However, they were a pet and behaved like a pet (in both their good and annoying aspects). At no time did the Sim gurus ever promise a new type of pet. The first description of the familiars (in an early tweet) was that they were drone-like, and early on the gurus also said they were interchangeable. So the gurus tried not to raise expectations. A new pet would have been nice but it is also nice to have a magical creature protect your sims from death while looking magic and not like a drone robot.