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I think something they wanted to portray but failed is that Dany and her dragons were always this insanely OP, it's just that she was holding back because she was being politically favorable with the north and playing the game normally so that she would be a "good ruler".

After she lost 2 dragons and all her friends to that game, she ditched it and went back to the selfish burning everything strategy, and this is the result. I think that's what the Rhaegal death scene was trying to show. When she's escorting the others and being all "strategic", she is weak and gets instakilled. But when she is reckless and dives head first into danger, she is invincible.

(I know this is all just wishful thinking about the quality of the writing but it makes some sense)