Thing is... it really wasn't about the hammer. The weapon could have been anything. The reason "Bunny Thumper" was so popular wasn't really because of the hopping animation or the weapon or whatever. It was popular because it was one of a tragically few number of viable ranger builds, especially in Tombs, Arenas, or Alliance Battles.
Players are going to reject Untamed, no matter how much ArenaNet tries to lean into the meme, if the spec is not particularly viable, and by all (admittedly limited) testing so far, it falls disastrously short in pretty much all aspects of GW2.