While its 2500 ATK does make it at least somewhat vulnerable, this weakness is countered by its effect to permanently raise the attack power of itself and other monsters you control during either players turn if a monster leaves the Extra Deck while negating a monsters effect - a dangerous ability to dangle over your opponents decision-making progress
All of these factors matter and can create an unstoppable team
Losing the ability to recover the basic fire energy more than once by taking Starmie out of the deck was the only noticeable disadvantage of that cut, but Raihan fixes that issue
I built Zurgo for my secret partners deck with Three Dog, Galaxy News DJThree Dog, Galaxy News DJ and Eriette of the Charmed AppleEriette of the Charmed Apple and it's a really strong finisher in that
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Many hand traps have to discard or send themselves to the Graveyard to activate, which Millennium-Eyes Restrict can counter