I can understand tradition and expectations, and as I said, I am not against new subclasses in the future. I fully EXPECT more subclasses in the future for all the classes.
And, again, I turn to the situation in 2014. Even with seven subclasses, there were cleric concepts missing. Especially the Forge domain, which was heavily requested. People made due with the subclasses we had, to make them close enough to Forge. People made their own Forge Domains. And both options still exist, along with an even better option. We can take the 2014 Forge Domain, and easily translate it into 2024. There are even going to be rules for doing exactly that in the cleric class itself. So we have even more options to cover the gaps we might find.
I agree with wanting more, but I want more of all the classes. And frankly the reason this is not a discussion for most of the classes, is because we keep comparing it to the 2014 PHB. While every class is losing subclasses from the larger game, the original PHB had five Classes which had 2 subclasses, five classes with 3 subclasses, and then the Cleric with 7 and the Wizard with 8. So, in terms of the original PHB every single other class, is GAINING subclasses in the PHB, and only the cleric and wizard are getting less, because they had over double the number of subclasses as anyone else to start with.
And, while it is tradition and expectation.... they don't require special treatment.