Is there a way around having "4 specs" in MoP

Under the current tree, you have to sacrafice talents like blood in the water and stampede for thick hide and natural reaction.

Fast forward to MoP talents, where the selectable talents are all joined and where is there room for thick hide? If not there, then do you give all ferals all the cat and bear abilities?

There in lies the problem. So how do you solve it?

Method 1: Merge the trees in MoP and allow feral druids and feral druids only to have to chose between blood in the water and stampede for thick hide and natural reaction within the main spec tree.

Method 2: The 2 trees in MoP grant almost identical talents to 80% of the feral tree today (fereal charge, furor, leader of the pack etc.). Actually selecting one tree or the other only matters for the talent points people are moving today.

Method 1 would have to be a special 1 off only for ferals, method 2 in practice would be no different than people going bear form in PvP today despite not having talent points in thick hide.

For people like me that glyph for hybrid use so I can tank 5 mans and still occasionally DPS in cat form under method 2 I would still generally be able to do the same thing.

TL;DR Cat and Bear are only different by about 5 talent points today. If Guardian (bear) and feral (cat) are just the new method of moving those few talents then the druids who shift between cat/bear today can probably do so in MoP for the same reasons.

What are your thoughts, is it possible to retain cat/bear shifting in MoP with 2 different specs? I believe this is entirely possible unless they specifically want to prevent it.
The devs said in a Q&A at blizzcon that they dont think tanks should be able to switch to DPS mid battle, so theyre taking that option away from druids.

Ok well theyre just putting it on a 45sec duration/ 6min cd anyways.

The devs said in a Q&A at blizzcon that they dont think tanks should be able to switch to DPS mid battle, so theyre taking that option away from druids.

If druids are no longer permitted to switch mid battle does that mean pally tanks will no longer have like 12 CD's?
You will still be able to switch...It's just going to be like a prot warrior or prot pally doing dps...You can still go in cat...You're DPS just won't be as high as it might be now....As a tank anyways. I think that's what there getting at.
Well I am hoping that if we go guardian then if we happen to change forms while tanking we will not be instantly squished. We may not be able to lets say healing touch or tranq while tanking but maybe throw off a b rez or perform and instant cast operation. Sounds like they want to make it so every spec will at some time or another want to use each form. So I am hoping that includes Guardian as well.