I only play the Triceratops feature when I don't have a choice in the matter. When having the right to choose my feature, I almost always pick T-Rex or Velociraptor, which I think is very underrated.
I agree with everything you said...I really pick velociraptor very rare...T-rex is my favourite, but I avoid it lately, because one-reel wilds became to often..
And here is complete Tricera stat from January 2017. I posted it because I had similar cold streak before and I had some decent wins and then it turned evil again...and yes...I had few screenshots that suck in 3 last WD reel manner...I don't know what is worse: no wilds at all or such mega near miss spin...(it also reminds me of Flint feature from Dragonz)....
28, 4, 37**, 58, 3, 4,. 68, 20, 16, 4, 11, 4, 25, 16, 34**, 25, 105**, 20, 12, 55, 17, 248, 13, 125, 81, 28, 16, 75, 125, 7, 22, 11, 16, 37, 20, 13, 441, 9, 13, 13, 19, 22, 49, 9, 7, 22, 6, 35, 11, 15, 5, 6, 8, 8, 16, 6, 180, 31, 412, 96**, 21, 11, 134, 14, 409, 215, 161, 15, 8, 83, 15, 26, 139, 3, 5, 3, 15, 101, 3, 34, 98, 11, 6 (NF!), 14, 38, 3, 18, 12, 11, 13, 7, 6, 27, 4, 11, 18, 13, 6, 4, 7, 5, 148
** - four scatters trigger
NF - no feature (no wilds)
BTW: in my very first JP session I got 624x on Tricera bonus... still the record....