What are you talking about, they removed lone wolf because lone wolf is now the key\main design of MM and is baked in by default and pet is removed.
What is my “Weak knee imagination” you are talking about? MM needed a rework for a while and they finally did it. Why are you so surprised they didnt design MM around pets when BM is already that.
If anything tinker will be a pet like spec since they removed pets from MM not the other way around.
But we’ve been through this: they play the endgames that matter. They’re the citizenship, with the right to representation and voting. The noncitizens can go eat “cake” 
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If this rework is needed for MM to have REPRESENTATION in M+, then that’s what goes. Casuals will keep playing it like it doesn’t matter and like they themselves don’t matter.
You really fancy yourself some sort of savant don’t you? I must be conversing with the best hunter in the world. Making up your own name with buffing Aimed Shot with Streamline must have been tough. Take a break. You are going to hard.
MM already plays differently then the other two specs. Just saying.
People have been denying all ways to Sunday that this is NOT the impetus behind the change. But I’m beginning to suspect that it actually is.
I’d love to see stats on the number of MM raiders playing at the M+ competitive tier versus the number of casual MM players who just like roaming the fields of Azeroth with their trusty pet by their side. You know – the original, classic vision of a hunter. Like the dwarf in the original cinematic …
Trust the Pravda, Comrade Liaeatha.
THis rework wasn’t needed .
What was needed is just removing lust from pets so that MM hunters wouldn’t have to worry about having pets for lust in M+ .
Now giving them a spell in the spec tree for lust like in the ptr isn’t a bad idea but it should of been made a over all class spell for all 3 specs.
Also even in M+ or say even raids of any level are MM hunters called on that often if they are in a group to be the ones that lust when Shamans , Mages and Evokers can do the same ?
Lock and Load needs a % buff with the increase to Aimed shot cast time. It maths out at 1 proc every 1.5 mins and that’s if you are lucky, there were stretches where I went over 2 mins with no L&L proc. This needs more attention on the PTR Feedback thread so it doesn’t get lost in the whinging pet posts.
The only thing that slaps is my wife when I play too much WoW. But then I show her my cute pets and she says sorry. I allow it because being a hunter is what it’s all about. We’re the hero azeroth needs, not the one it deserves