Have you been living under a rock or unsubbed for ages? ALL surveys published in various sites point to Survival's pitiful statistic representation. Not counting the "anecdotal" evidence of never seeing a Survival hunter ingame for ages. What I do? What most casuals do: questing, hanging out in Oribos, LFR, dungeons, everything except PvP. Some guy said they are more prevalent in arenas. Another one disagreed, so... Should there be a PvP-oriented spec? If it is the design intention, which I doubt, it's a questionable one since it alienates the vast majority of the class' players.
Do YOU see Survival hunters around? Please tell me where! I'd love to take a closer look at that rare species live.
https://wowranks.io/stats as of today counts 35,497 Survs in 783,943 Hunters (4,5%)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/st...26/#dataset=95 Mythic Castle Nathria 95th perc: 506 Surv entries in 75,090 hunters (0.67%)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/st...5&difficulty=3 Normal CN: 2,412 / 69,242 (3.4%)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/25 all Mythic plus dungeons combined: 27,366 / 983,583 (2.7%)
Can I stop? Great popular spec you're trying to defend there... Not a failure at all.