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It's because their goal isn't survival, it's to live out some romanticized fantasy of what they think being a hunter gatherer is like. It's why they are all about living on their own (despite the fact that humans are group animals) and using stones (despite, as you say, metal continuing to exist now for hundreds of years even if all the knowledge we have on how to make new metal is lost). A lot of them actually have no idea how to survive. They might know a few tricks that will keep them alive long enough to kill themselves rather than freeze to death.
I don't want to sound like I'm some expert by the way. I know enough to know I know absolutely nothing. I think Finland can be a good example to use. Finland is a vast, lake and forest covered country. There are plentiful resources here if you know where to look, but you better be storing up those resources as soon as you find them because you will die when winter comes if you don't. No question about it. It's still possible to find food in winter but it's a thousand times harder than in Summer and you will be using almost as much or more energy getting that food as you get from it. Before industrialized farming and modern food distribution, starvation was common and that was WITH an entire village all working the fields. One guy on their own in the Finnish forest, with no food stores in, let's be generous, October? They won't make it to Christmas I can tell you that.
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