Huntsman's identity is mid-range mobile harasser. The intent with this change would be to enable them to move in an out of melee fluidly to maximize their contributions to group DPS, without impeding their landscape/solo efficacy.
Bowmaster is the classic stand and deliver style ranged damage dealer. A bit bland, but definitely efficient.
Trapper of Foes is supposed to be the hybrid AoE/CC unique spec line.
This seems perfectly in line with my understanding of hunter. The problem is in this forum you have a lot of people that think they know hunter a lot better than they do. The only things I would add the following:
Huntsman: on top of the mobility, they get one of the only melee skills for hunter, so that makes perfect sense that you would bump that, but also core to blue is bleeds and bleed dmg.
Bowmaster: High single target burst, strong single target bleeds, mild AOE dmg, a lot of skill rooting like swift bow or roa so extremely stationary
Trapper: Yes this line has good CC, but I want to make sure the buffing/debuffing support aspect isn't overlooked. Trap debuffs are one of the biggest parts of yellow, thats why when they were broken people didn't even trait swap for prebuffs.
Anyway, so far so good i think as long as the numbers hold up I think hunter will be in a good position with the changes that have been mentioned.