Yeah the reward for the effort on a lot of quests is very silly but the itemization in general in classic is terrible. Like the rare on the stone spider is
Brown chitin protector which is overall terrible for a druid and it drops from a mob still considered very annoying even to this day. Lots of pure caster stuff loaded with dex and agi. It seems like the guys who designed the classes never talked to the guys who created the items. Lots of stuff is basically useless to anyone.