Perception and reality are two distinct things.
Lone Wolf isn't bad. It's quite powerful, actually, if you know how to make use of it. But as most talents come with a downside, so does this one. Being a pretty extreme talent, it comes with a pretty extreme downside.
Although, even I feel that Lone Wolf should get some more positives to counter-balance the huge losses you get (no companion, less overall flexibility, late game disadvantage for the early game advantage).
Note that this comes from someone who finished all the cyseal content during beta just before game launch with two lone wolfs with glass cannon. And they were a ranger and wizard at base. And I died maybe a total of 5 times.
