Drake Rider's Mature Dragon Companion feat - is the omission of Fly intentional?

The feat Mature Dragon Companion has the following text:

> Your dragon companion gains greater independence. During an encounter, even if you don’t use the Command an Animal action, your dragon companion can still use 1 action that round on your turn to Stride or Strike

This is similar, but not identical, to the Mature Companion feats from other classes and archetypes (Druid, Ranger, Beastmaster), which all say:

> Your animal companion has greater independence. During an encounter, even if you don't use the Command an Animal action, your active animal companion can still use 1 action that round on your turn to Strike or Stride (or Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim if it has that Speed).

Paizo specifically called these out in the Player Core spring 2026 errata:

> The Mature Animal Companion feat’s wording didn’t work as intended for animal companions with Speeds beyond land Speeds. Replace the second sentence of the second paragraph with the following: “During an encounter, even if you don’t use the Command an Animal action, your animal companion can still use 1 action that round on your turn to Strike or Stride (or Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim if it has that Speed).” Note: The 2nd printing mistakenly excluded “Fly” from the list.

But no such errata has been published for Mature Dragon Companion. Do you think this is an oversight, or is it intentional that the drake rider's companion can only stride, but not fly, independently? Especially knowing that for the riding drake the player would need to take 2 feats just to give their drake a fly speed to begin with.

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u/TopFloorApartment — 4 months ago