I have been trying to figure this out for some time. It seems obvious to most anyone that plays a Hunter with any frequency that there are a tremendous amount of QoL issues and outright bugs that cripple much of the class as a whole. It also seems painfully obvious to anyone with a reasonable train of thought that Hunters are doing very poorly in the DPS department these days (don't get me started on PvP).
So why is it that Blizzard flat out refuses to address these very real issues. I simply cannot fathom a logical reason that they not only ignore the problems, but that they won't even acknowledge a problem exists ("Hunter DPS is fine, if not a little high" -GC)
Obviously we see other classes getting buff's to their 2nd and 3rd tier spec's (DEAR GOD, MAGES AGAIN!!) to make those classes fully rounded, while the Hunter spec's are routinely left to languish and be band-aided xpac after xpac with no real solutions.
But why? How is this at all a logical way to run a business? Let's assume the WoW population is ~10 million and apx 10% of those are people that play the Hunter class. That's roughly 1 Million people that are playing a poorly developed class. This isn't a significant reason to do something?
I have joked in the past that it's because GC plays a Mage, but to be honest I didn't REALLY believe that the lead developer of a multi BILLION dollar MMO is that shallow.
So what could possibly be the reasoning behind these very blatant omissions to Hunter issues?
There are days where I honestly wish they would just say "we can't figure out how to make Hunters work, so we are offering anyone with a Hunter 'toon a one time class transfer (all achiev's and mounts etc come with you) and then we will be deleting the Hunter as a playable class". At least this would be honest and provide some reasonable course of action.
So why? Why won't Blizzard fix something that is so obviously broken?
I am not looking for QQ, oh woe is me here. I am honestly curious as to their possible rationale for their actions (inactions).