And yet locks and mages are both doing far better at the highest ratings.
People can nit pick all they want but they have to ask themselves what they prefer balancing around. I personally think seeking only top end 3s balance for classes is a cop out and makes blatant outliers look fine just cause of team synergy.
So yes, I think hunters are over the top. No, blizzard wouldn't agree because they're fine in 3s. It's saddening but just how it works.
Hunters also weren't "dreadful pre-5.0". The vast majority of people just sucked ass at an extremely high skill floor and skill cap class with the change to focus and maintaining dead zone. Great hunter players saw rank 1 and tournament play. The class was just absent sub 2200 because mediocre/bad players couldn't make the class work.