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They kinda had to, because of the rising popularity of Spybot and Malwarebytes.
Are you saying that Malwarebytes is a malware?
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I don't believe that the average user's computer should have hacking tools on it.
You may be misunderstanding. The "hacking tools" phrase likely refers to what others might call "penetration testing tools" and/or tools used for reverse engineering.
I know very well what that means. These freaking AV flag my stuff all the time...
I remember when MingW or Cygwin users were complaining that AVs were detecting "Hello world" binaries as malware too. IMHO AVs started becoming anti-user when they began detecting "hacking tools" and keygens/cracks/patches (there are certainly some which do have malware, but detecting software that does exactly what it claims to do is going beyond that.) That's acting in the interests of corporations, not users. It's…
I think the context here is that a lot of this software contains malware (even the ones that also do what they say on the tin), and its a lot harder to separate since the deliberate intent is "modify the workings of other programs". It becomes nearly impossible to algorithmically decide if it is modifying other programs"in the way the user wanted rather than any undesired way.