Funny fact, research before posting such tremendous nonsense. Back in vanilla (and through expansions to cataclysm) hunter had SOME melee capabilities, every spec had them, it is true that survival had one or two more (cause talents) and the spec strengthened some of them (again talents) (More in older iterations of game, vanilla>BC>Lich King).
This was cause back then hunter COULDN'T use ranged skills at melee range (hell, they couldn't use any skill at all in the dead zone (5-8y)) and those called melee skills were designed primarily as get away resources, not damage ones.
Why do you people keep enforcing hunters NEED to be melee (be it SV,BM or just a 4th spec)? Don't you have enough melee classes to choose? Why don't you try to do it the other way, choose a melee class, and beg them to make it ranged?