I keep checking to see if there's any update on this (even to know if it's by design or if it was an oversight).

Going by the tokens/pieces I've upgraded I can tell I've ran it about 40 times so far and I've never even seen the 9S minion drop. I know it sounds melodramatic, but It's soul crushing to spend ~45 minutes in the raid for it to not even appear at the end (let alone actually have to win it...)

I know it's RNG at its best, but if it was something like an extreme primal we'd at least get a token that we could later trade in for the mount. Right now you could potentially run this a thousand times and never even see it drop and it just feels like a huge waste of time.