The only race that shouldn’t be Hunters is Forsaken.
Only Night Elves should be Druid.
Really Blizzard was lazy when it came to classes which is why in BC suddenly Horde got paladins and everything was a homogenized mess. Whereas in the games each faction was unique.
I agree. I also think all races should have warriors, hunters, and rogues. They all have some sort of cultural or military application: infantry, archers, and skirmishers, etc.
I faintly remember a series of warcraft short stories written from the perspective of a tamed wolf. The published title was “The Bone That Calls You.” Maybe I am mistaken about this forsaken chronicle.
You really want to open this can of worm Elsinora; if that is your true name, miss undead … um … woman … hm?
The general semantics of warrior, hunter, rogue are less similar to your purported likenesses; infantry, archer, skirmisher; than to modern terms; soldier, survivalist, cutthroat.
A warrior is exactly the same as a warfighter, which is a professional war actor. Infantry are a subgroup of warriors who train in group tactics specific to a warfighting strategy. Like as light, medium, or heavy infantry. Their tactics are tuned with their equipment. This might appear contextually correct for WoW’s rendition of a warrior class, but you distinguished it apart from skirmisher. A skirmisher can also be a type of infantry, though. A skirmisher is not a lone assailant, or sneak dependent.
A hunter is not a colloquial hunter in WoW. The gamified hunter takes the combined roll of war engineer (munitions) and North American Colonies Civil War era survivalist; who trapped and skinned for profit, used lone or small group gorrilla tactics with a ranged primary weapon against larger forces, and was also skilled in varied melee styles.
A rogue in WoW is written in the quest stories as an intelligence asset and a dissident, yet the combat style is a badly gamed mix of ronin and thug. The ronin would count as a skirmisher if fully equipped for warfare and followed group tactics. The thug would not count as a skirmisher, because of the reliance on solo ambush with a sap, and preference for dual daggers. It is not that a thug could not behave as a skirmisher in war. It is that the skillset and equipment is not normally likened to a skirmisher.
Besides all this I do agree with you that the original concept for race and class mixes was obviously flawed. Clearly, all races will have a warrior as a standard warfighter to fill warfighter positions with bodies. All races will also have typical warfighter specializations that could be categorized as ranged, with use of ammunition for bows or artillery, and special insurgency, with use of munitions for sapping or use of technology for intelligence or asymmetric operations.