If you want to PvP, dont even bother with hunter.
For PvE, there is a reason why hunter is not meta right now and these reasons bleed all the way through. Its nonsense to say that this wouldnt affect a player that doesnt play the highest challenges, it will already be apparent in middling content. Hunters have terrible survivability and low burst, both things that make them undesirable in any type of content, no matter the difficulty.
Add on top of that the reliance on a very rare bow from a raid endboss and you have a pretty weak experience.
If you only want to play it for the Exotic Pets, go for it, but know that you will be at a disadvantage in group content.
I am very glad about my decision to finally shelf my hunter, that i have been maining since Vanilla. It kinda pained me, but seeing the current state of hunter makes me not wanna look back.