They're stepped on or dropped overboard too often. My choice of an 8 to 10 pound rod for day in knocking around shallows use is a 7 foot Shaekespeare medium action Ugly Stick rated for 8 to 15 pound line. I add medium level Shimano reels to them. You might spend a bit more for a Penn or Daiwa offering. Once you've chosen a reel with a good bail spring and decent drag washers in the spool, you're wasting your money on more bells and whistles.
Good stuff lasts a long time though.
Now, if I'm bonefishing, I have a rig for shrimp, a jig, and a small top water bait on wire for random small to medium sized sharks or big barracudas. The same rigs work for a fun day snagging trout, jacks, and lady fish from a mullet mud. They perform as jigging rods in backcountry creeks for snook and reds or on patch reefs for Cero Mackerel, and legal sized grouper and snappers. You don't have to sight fish to have a great time in the Keys shallows either. Bonefish and permit are as dumb as catfish if you have some patience.