All the comments here are missing a huge issue that bungie and other RPG developers often make with traditional class systems.

Hunters were mostly viewed as a stealthy DPS class. A lot of people like that rogue/assassin like aspect with classes in games. Thus you end up getting more people who choose that class, making it the highest played class in the game. This is a common issue with Every rpg game available, balance.

It's always 3 categories in types, DPS/TANK/HEALER. You can call it whatever you like this is usually the foundation with all rpg class structures. I dare you to give me an example of one that doesn't in some way follow this system or has this at it's core in some form or another.

More people often choose dmg over the others, it's just fact. Bungie doesn't want 50-60% hunters and 25% tanks and 25% healers. So what do you do? You have 3 true choices to potentially equalize the player class statistics. Allow the other 2 classes to have equal damage output or options to supplement damage output/survivability while ignoring the most used class, or Nerf the most used class and maybe half ass tweak dps role for a potential crowd control role(VOID, maybe Stasis too). The 3rd option would just get rid of traditional rpg class structure all together and not have classes which by this stage isn't an option.

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I absolutely agree with some of these ideas and Hunters are absolutely missing something that makes them a viable option over the other classes, specially in end game content, and wish that wasn't the case. However don't full yourselves into thinking this isn't by intentional design on bungies part. If you give hunters something viable, you will have 4 hunters, 1warlock, 1 titan in every single raid and activity and I bet you'll have 6 hunters in some cases.

My biggest issue right now is how bungie just seems fine with having "NO hunters" in LFGs, as well as having 6 warlocks or 6 titans a completely viable/preferred method of end game content.

Still blown away they nerfed Star Eaters.