Already a topic about this:
You really didn’t have to spend so much time nit-picking every weapon — nearly every class has an optimal weapon right now. It’s much more important that power differences between classes are evened out first, which is the argument you started making with comparisons to BH anyway.
Huntsman is actually in an extremely powerful spot right now when built correctly ; although he lacks the clearing power of BH’s volley cross his special sniping is far more reliable. Hunter’s prowl can take out several chaos knights in its short duration or take half the boss’s HP on legend, granted you can land the headshots. With his buffed crit talent scrounger is all you need to sustain yourself.
Speaking from experience as a 30+30 kruber main in legend.