If you have one person out of 100 people doing something, you can say “one in 100 people does X.” Lingustically speaking though, we just say “no one is doing X.” Of course, context matters.
The issue here is that we don’t have hard data to support any claims, so we have to go with deductive data to support our claims… and all of that points towards no one even want to use pets as MM as a default.
So no, you are still disingenuous because everyone in PvE settings use Lone Wolf as MM. But since you need it spelled out for ya’, I am saying that linguistically rather than the literal definition you seem to be after.
Oh and by the way, what I have been saying on this topic doesn’t actually require a source … because it has been a well established fact of the matter for 10-ish years.
But since you wanted one, I did a 2 minute search and here you go, straight from 2016:
My point is that folks have since Warlords of Draenor always talked about MM like this. A specialization where you can get rid of the pet and it simply just works with no downsides. But sure, it is mentioned as an option to keep the pet, not as a default, which since Warlords of Draenor has ever been the highest way folks treat MM pets.
And this was back in 2016. For a more recent way folks talk about MM and pets, just have a look at Wowhead:
That’s listed as a negative. The default is that you don’t play with a pet at all.
Removing something which people at best view as an optional thing to not pick, and replacing it with something which is meant to work better with the specializations’ identity … that is what the entire thing is about.
Forum contrarians or not, that’s why this change is happening. MM hunters doesn’t want to use pets. Simple as that, if this wasn’t the case the number of people opting to play without Lone Wolf would be significantly higher including in the screenshot you provided.