It’s a stupid rule in your opinion. You shared your opinion, almost everyone else that commented simply shared theirs and a little bit of the “why”. It just so happens that most of the people that weighed in disagreed with you, including myself. Some were residents, some were nonresidents, some were horse people, some were not, you got a pretty “fair” cross section of people that hunt the west.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to understand that a loud exhaust (multiple of them) pressure the crap out of animals when compared to a moose sized critter that “pollutes everything” by…pooping everywhere, just like moose and elk do.
In the sense that “more people use the land and will vote to protect it” more access like what you are looking for can be a good thing. I understand that side of the coin completely.
Otherwise, as far as hunting goes, specifically backcountry hunting and public land more/easier access is almost always a bad thing. The animals were holed up where they were for a reason, because the masses can not (or will not) get to them. The biologists obviously don’t want the masses getting to them.
