Surprises cheer people up, so it needed to be a surprise.
Madness string 2813
In essence, the problem is that, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it could be a dragon doing a duck impersonation. One may not always want to let dragons into a pond, even if they can impersonate a duck.
Communicating badly and then acting smug when people fail to understand is just meh.