This is an easy one: because ranged SV players were there first and in greater numbers.
Ah yes because replacing one of 3 ranged weapon users with one of thirteen melee weapon users, including every single DPS spec added to the game post-launch, is definitely creative and out-of-the-box thinking.
Yeah, no. Making melee specs is Blizzard’s comfort zone. Besides; none of the three Hunter specs were as routinely and totally unpopular as melee Survival.
This would be ideal.
This goes both ways. There are plenty of Hunters in game that don’t post on the forums but are still unhappy with Survival being melee. The notion that everyone who doesn’t post here is fine with it is fallacious.
None of these are on the same level as changing SV to a melee spec.
Good grief…