There are some Clans that seem to like 'Mechs with standard engines, particularly the Blood Spirits--their own homegrown Omni, the Stooping Hawk, has one. The Steel Vipers favour (or at least have favoured) their Battle Cobra and Crossbow in their front-line forces.
The Kingfisher still has a place in the toumans of a number of Clans. Why wouldn't these Clans continue to make use of the Woodsman?
Keeping in mind the pros/cons of the Woodsman's standard engine, it seems like it could still be a capable heavy 'Mech for Clans that prize low cost and durability.
cheers,
Gabe
It would definitely still be a useful mech, but there's a lot of fluff reasons for it to not be resurrected. If you look at the intro dates, the Battle Cobra, Crossbow, and Kingfisher were all contemporaries of the Woodsman, coming into service with 15-20 years of the Woodsman beginning production. So you can see that the Vipers (and whoever designed the Kingfisher) designed those other omnis along the same lines as the Woodsman. And while it had more firepower than the Battle Cobra and the Crossbow, the Woodsman was slower than both and a main contributing factor of the Woodsman's end was it's lack of speed versus omnis of similar tonnages. Ignoring the Vipers odd design preferences for their omnis, why would the Vipers want a mech that was slower than theirs when that mech was going out of service cause it was too slow?
The Kingfisher was 15 tons heavier than the Woodsman, but it moved at the same speed and it carries 62 more points of armor, maxing out its armor. The Kingfisher may have 3.5 tons less of podspace, but it has 5 more DHS fixed to the base chassis (17 DHS total). The only two places the Woodsman has an advantage is in crit space (10 more crits b/c it doesn't use FF armor) and the use of MASC, but again, the MASC failure rates were sighted as one of the Woodsman's fatal features.
Now the Blood Spirits are a different situation. Their first omni (that we know of) is the Stooping Hawk, which was made prior to 2975, but after the Mad Dog (which itself was made sometime after the Timber Wolf which was made in 2945). Prior to the Stooping Hawk, the Blood Spirits were so short on resources that they purposely did not design their own omnis, all the extra pods and omni connectors were considered too big a waste of the Spirits limited resources for minimal gain. Despite how well the Stooping Hawk performs, it's TRO entry says that it's pretty rare among the Spirits and the Khans still regularly review performance reports to make sure it's still a good use of resources. Even the Crimson Languar, the Spirits other homemade omni was designed with the help of the Fire Mandrills.
It's interesting to note, the Battle Cobra, Stooping Hawk, Crossbow, Lupus, Woodsman, and Kingfisher are the only Clan omnis with an SFE and all of them (except the Stooping Hawk) were part of that first batch of Clan omnis.