>most of the joke weapons such as cornpopper are nowhere to be found at Wilds release
>could've easily made their materials gatherable or at least take effort finding somewhere on the various biome maps to incentivize exploring
>instead turn Cornpopper into a boring ass event quest like they did Speartuna in Icebornce
There's no reason this weapon couldn't have been in the game from the start, and honestly it just makes the state of Wilds' content offerings look even sadder than they already are.