What kind of gear would it have dropped? People were asking for Mythic raid and M+ high key power levels in terms of gear.
The only things that were certain about torghast was legendary crafting and junk from TC. Making Torghast drop gear, and the gear people wanted which was raid and M+ gear, would have made raids and M+ irrelevant and would have created a single player game. It wouldnt have dropped anything higher than LFR or world quest ilvl gear. Its much too easy for that.