That is patently bollocks. Of course there is a cost to keeping something in the talent tree. This might be different if they decided to make it baseline and just part of the package, But it isn’t.
And it IS relevant to the discussion. Just because a single person found it useful is actually NOT a good enough reason to keep it in the game. That is a level of entitlement that is astounding. That is as bad as going to the other extreme - “if only 49% of people found it useful it should be culled”. Both positions are stupidly black and white.
Blizzard got rid of it. They haven’t given a reason. Pouting and declaring “I have decided to never play my Hunter again” or “1 person liked it, so it should stay” or “it was fun” are not actually going to change their minds. That literally is the equivalent of the childish “I am going to hold my breath until they change their minds”.
As I said before. You can break this into 3 groups of people
- those who don’t care since they never used it
- those that do care, but will keep going anyways
- those that really really do care.
Unless you can convince Blizzard that the 3rd group is a big enough portion and will impact their bottom line, you aren’t going to enact change.