It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English lawbook.
The causes are presented as follows: packer unloading pressure, formation damage, oil tool plugging, formation voidage, the worst formation physical properties and the effect from vicinage wells.
Ultimately, the quest for the Elder Wand merely supports an observation I have had occasion to make many times over the course of my long life: that humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.