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Let me try this from one other point of view, and before I say anything let me state I love my double rifle in 7x65R and 9.3x74R. BUT you have to consider the weight of these rifles, dragging them through the woods. Today with the advent of Mountain rifles and Stalking rifles and the manufacturers trying to lighten the load. Why hunt whitetail or any other animal dragging an extra 3 to 5 pounds around?
I recently hunted boar with my 470. I loved it and I had more fun than you could imagine. But at the end of the day my ass was dragging carrying around that gun. I would do it again in a minute but it needs consideration when trekking through the mountains. The double rifle owners here are a breed of gun lovers and do it for the love of it. Manufacturers have to think about the rest of the world.
Just my observation and humble opinion.

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I also hunt most of the time with a double rifle of some kind, but most of my real hunting bolt, and single shot rifles will come in at between 7 1/2, and 9 pounds loaded with a scope attached. That said I simply don't see the sense in a high powered rifle that weighs in a t 7 pounds and under, when loaded, and scoped.

I carry a 9.3X74R Merkel double rifle all day in the mountains of New Mexico, and Colorado, that range in altitude of 6000 to 14000 feet above sea level, and it weighs 8.3 pounds with two rounds in the chambers. I Hunt the mountains of Southeast Alaska for bear with a 470NE Merkel, and 500/450 Westley Richards, and hunt the swampy country of East Texas, and Louisanna, with a 58 cal S/S muzzleloader double, and most times one of my 9.3X74R doubles, in all cases carry all the crap that goes along with hunting for many days out of a back pack,or Canoe,here in North America, and I hunt with a pair of Merkel doubles in Africa, a 470NE, and the trim little 9.3X74R, carrying one or the other all day long every day in 100 deg heat(F), and I'm 70 yrs old. I simply don't see any problem with a rifle that weighs 8 to 10 lbs, for hunting any country.