Wow... what a post...
-They have a mobility-focussed playstyle which no other class has (monks don't count, you don't deal damage with roll, nobody cares about the fact that it is a leather user, there never was a balance of cloth-leather-mail-plate and there never will be. And with personal loot, loot tables aren't an issue).
-Overabundance according to you whom.... you? Nobody cares about that shit. Melee-users might switch over to DH's, but I doubt fans of casters will.
-All classes exist to make the player feel cool............... hero class merely implies that said class starts at a higher level.
-Of course the lore and aesthetic are tied to Illidan, he's the first demon hunter and the only real source of fresh (and belf!) DH's... I guess you hate DK's and monks too because their lore is tied to the Lich King and pandaren respectively?
-How is it any more pointless than any of the other existing classes?
-You're not stuck with it if you don't play it... somebody is real salty here that the next class wasn't tinker or some unfeasible nonsense
Haven't face-palmed this much since reading a a tennisace thread a while back
Why should it have been a ranged class or a healer? Do you think that if Blizzard made a class with one or both of those traits, current DPS and/or melee people would have switched over to the new class? I don't think so