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There was simply no development that took Wanda there. Just because it's magic it doesn't mean there's no need for development.And then the corruptive power of the Darkhold threw a monkey wrench in all that. These kinds of stories are all about how people deal with the various monkey wrenches thrown in their plans, and how it changes them as a result.
Wanda at the end of WandaVision had not yet been corrupted by the Darkhold. Her journey up until that point is still legitimate, just now she has to deal with the fact that in her journey she hit a pot hole that sent her careening off the side of the road.
I'm still not sure what you're not convinced about. Is it that you think the human mind cannot be corrupted by external factors? Is it that you simply dislike the fact that it happened to Wanda specifically? Is it that you have a problem with the ambiguity surrounding culpability and personal autonomy that arises in these sorts of situations?
Well Frodo is a hobbit, and hobbits are specifically stated to be more resistant to the effects of the One Ring, that's why Frodo was given the ring in the first place. Wanda is more comparable to if Gandalf or Galadriel had been given the One Ring, which we know would have ended in disaster.
They took her from A to Z and explained it with magic instead of character development.
And again, you can use magic and character development.