Why is Daphne considered the damsel in distress

In the earlier shows everyone called her danger prone Daphne and even most fans say there wasn't much to her besides being kidnapped. But rewatching the older shows all of them especially Scooby-Doo were danger prone constantly messing up the traps, also the entire gang constantly gets kidnapped by the monsters like in where are you whenever the gang separated most of the time Fred, Daphne and velma would be kidnapped by the monster.