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The premise isn't really true, since such hexatonic scales are actually very common in folk and country music. In particular, the “missing scale” 221223. An important source are Scottish tunes, e.g.

X:1
T:The Athole Highlanders
L:1/16
M:6/8
K:D
V:2 clef=treble
|: A6 A3FD2 | A3FD2 E3FG2 | A6 A3FD2 | E3FG2 F3ED2 |
A6 A3FD2 | A3FD2 E3FG2 | Ad3A2 B3AG2 | F3GE2 D6 :|
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Celtic music is strongly dominated by a single melody, which is often mostly pentatonic but adds in the remaining diatonic notes occasionally.

This tendency to keep a lot to the major pentatonic (as well as the Blues one, though that is actually quite different) has had a lot of influence on American Folk and through that on country, rock and pop music. However, those genres have much more emphasis on a chordal accompaniment, using the and chords most often, so country can hardly be called pentatonic. Hexatonic it is.

The situation is very different in classical music. This too is dominated by melodies, but there is a fundamentally different approach. Whereas Celtic music likes a “constant floating feeling”, classical music is all about building up, constructing cadences that have clear resolutions. And the most powerful melodic resolution is the - step, which is therefore all over classical music.

But even classical music may use hexatonic scales, in particular when going for a folky feel. It's more naturally the “missing ” 223221 scale then. A prime example is the gorgeous Andante Maestoso from Holst's Planets:

X:1
T:Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:Eb
V:2 clef=treble
z4 G,B, | C2 (CE) (D3/2B,/2) | EF E2 D2 | CD C2 B,2 | G,4 G,B, |
C (CE) (D3/2B,/2) | EF G2 G2 | (GF E2) F2 | E4 (BG) |
F2 F2 EG | (F2 B,2) BG | F2 F2 GB | c4 cd | e2 d2 c2 | B2 e2 G2 |
FE F2 G2 | B4
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