Flogging allows a huge range and variety of feels and intensities because of different materials and styles and can be anywhere on the stingy to thuddy range, I’ve seen styles designed to draw blood and works really well as a warm up for other activities, so I expect that’s a lot of why it’s so well loved by subs/bottoms. I know I love to be flogged. I would expect wielding floggers is not as wide a spectrum, I have my own style and my selection of implements, and most bottoms can take being flogged for a really long time depending on how the flogging is done so part of it may be that a lot of the Doms/tops get tired of doing it long before most subs/bottoms reach their limits. Just an opinion.