Pets are annoying, cluttering, and just too much to manage 
. you jump down a cliff and they dont follow, lose big DPS, they pull ads, they aren’t very interactive with you. Just overall difficult.
Can we have a talent called, “Prey to Survive”, where we can eat/sacrifice our pets and so we can be stand-alone? thanks!
Lots of people rolled hunter in sod because of lone wolf based on comments from the hunter discord. So i think petless ranger playstyle has a population.
Generally lots of people are not a fan of micromanaging a pet if your main focus isnt on the pet. IE you are not playing a pet spec. Which is why they added in lonely winter for mage.
Many like it. But it’s not the original class fantasy, so a significant portion of long time hunters will always oppose it.
this is already a thing. there is already a lone wolf talent
true, if you want to do less dmg than the healers
that’s just marksmanship for you lol. there is NEVER going to be a petless beast mastery and there is also very very unlikely to ever be a petless SV
I always like the “ranger” or “stealth archer” archetypes, so I’ve never been that big on pets myself.
Pet less marksman is really the only hunter spec where it would make sense and you can already play that. Survival without a pet is just a warrior in mail and beast mastery… yeah.
Well they’re called “Survival”, and sometimes that means making sacrifices. 
For MM Hunters. Yes. Pets are nearly useless.
For the other two specs. Okay.
What? Isn’t that just marksman? That’s like going into a pizza store and complaining you hate pizzas.
I think what you want is a new class - the Ranger - which I am onboard with. Stealth dps and maybe a AOE healing or something like Aug evoker.
For one spec and one spec only. Just as melee is available to one spec only, and a lack of explosives is viable for one spec only (if there is any AoE).
That’s less a pet less DnD Ranger option than simply the only competitive way to play MM as it regards pets.
I can see why people would want more than just that.