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Because bonking is more fun than brainlessly just shooting from a distance as fucking Thor.
It's the exact opposite of what you'd want to do as Thor.

It'd be like playing Hulk and instead of Hulk smashing shit in melee, he stood spitting gamme spit at range because that dealth more damage than his fists and is "safer".
The last Thor change was a retarded change in more ways than one.