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Elder does spawn later but he also does decently less dmg than baron and is easier to kill/less dangerous! Which is weird if you ask me. (This was recentely changed, he now doesnt deal extra dmg towards you depending on drakes slain)
If we compare a 35min baron to a 35min elder there are alot more that could solo elder. Thats obviously only based on overall judgement.
Anyway the power and the snowball tendency (Rifty does way less for you if you are the team thats behind, compared to if you would be the team thats ahead) should make a somewhat difficult to take objectiv. Beeing able to solo it, especially even with champs that should definitely not be able to solo it (for example a sup soraka), is a questionable design choice, at best.
Heck if some special champs like a warwick or a vi are able to take it solo, be it. But basically everyone, even non junglers, that is bad!
Im pretty sure Soraka in generally will never ever take an Elder Dragon. Maybe if she built as an ADC but that is a troll build so won't consider it.
Most champs can't take it alone. Literally the only champs that can are literally really fed ADCs with LS and a lot of AS, or really tanky champs that deal %hp damage. That is why I used WW and Vi as an examples since WW between his passive and his Q and how he generally builds will lifesteal more than it can ever hurt him for, and Vi due to her passive shield and her W passive that does %hp damage and breaks armor, and can constantly repeat it.
Also Elder is a weaker buff than Baron is why. How powerful it is depends on what dragons actually spawned, and if you got them. Say all game only ocean and air dragons spawned, That Elder won't be that great even if you got all of them. Now say it was 3 infernals and 2 mountains? That Elder is going to be probably better than Baron if you got a good chunk or even better all of those dragons. Say you didn't get a single dragon but got Elder? You basically just picked up a tiny burn passive which basically is ignorable other than deny your enemy the buffs.
Baron on the other hand is always useful and is always powerful regardless of most situations. Unless you are so insanely far behind, Baron can make a team that was losing the entire game come back into the game if not outright win it. Or help a team that was winning all game but can't quite finish off the turtling enemy finally be able to break them and end it. You don't get that kind of power out of Elder overall. And Baron is only soloable but a VERY few champs.
You also got to consider Baron has passives to him and actual skills he can use. All Elder has is just spam auto attack that explode in a cone. Baron passively burns you for being near him, has a knock up, has a stun, has an armor/mr shred. He does more things is why. If anything all they should do to Elder is give him more spells to use, he is meant to be the perfect dragon basically combining all the other dragons powers, make him do something with them. Let him use fire dragons power and leave small fire pools on his autos and underneath him similar to what Shyvana does, air dragons power lets him blow you away or knocks people into the air with a giant gust of wind. Earth dragon power can be a massive stun as he slams the ground hard. Ocean can be like some kind of regen on himself, either a big chunk of healing at once or just a %heal over time that looks unnoticable will actually heal him quite a lot and make him last a lot longer.
I've called him this since teased.
can easily do Elder alone, and fast at that with a normal build on her, nothing fancy, and can even solo Baron easily if she builds some lifesteal. I generally never get lifesteal myself but sometimes I will go why not? And get a 
on her and take it alone.
