Heros are defensive units

According to Supercell's own word concerning the last update of kings and queens they "defend their own territory." Since they defend a territory - which is what every other defensive unit in the game does - then why don't defensive specialist attacker troops (ie. giants, golems, pekkas, hogs, etc) attack the king and queen instead of bypassing them as though they were not defensive units?

Because this is the ideas forum, my idea would be to change that and not let defensive specialists bypass kings and queens.

Maybe because Supercell strives for balance, and they determined that better game balance exists when defense-led troops ignore heroes and only attack defensive buildings instead.

that's my guess.