Hahaha fire mages??? In what world. We can sac a whole combust, dispel spam mages on top of los spam. If you lose against a mage in bgs its on you.
Multiple ways to interrupt casts, freedom novas, drop target, silence, interupt, stun all from range.
You said hunters “always countered mages,” then proceed to speak in present tense. Again, there have been plenty of times fire and frost mages have countered hunter in the past.
Blizzard figures, as long as Hunters do well in PVP. That they wont have to actually rework the class.