Originally Posted by
Koollan
I can see your point from this angle, so I don't discount that. I think I have one issue with hybrid specs in general, though - that, in truth, with how specs have been structured since the beginning of Legion, would simply not work.
Is that generally a bad thing? Honestly, probably. But with what we have, what we got is the best outcome. The specs simply do not have cross-compatibility anymore due to the interconnectivity of everything within one specialization. It would make hybrids either useless or broken, with no in between.
Again, is this a bad thing? Probably. The current amount of theorycrafting isn't to what it used to be. Though, for what we got in the Modern version of the game with how classes play, this I believe is the best option.
Do you think playing a frost mage with hot streak would feel intuitive? Or, perhaps, getting instead Dreadstalker procs in the middle of your building phase as an Aff warlock? Perhaps being forced to weave Rapid Fire on your Survival hunter in the middle of your Mongoose Bite building would be preferable due to the DPS increase? It would make many specs next to impossible to play since they're all so incredibly different now.
Regardless, what you say has a lot of merit and I understand why the hybrid nature of the old trees was valid. I do believe that it was necessary to get rid of it for the current game design, though.