its been dead since 3.0 sure, everyone has been busy getting to lvl 60

before that though you could get matches very regularly, albeit less so than frontlines, and there are tonnes of people playing organised matches on primal and even more so on aether

im not totally against giving tanks some sort of ability to help peel, perhaps giving the paladin and warrior tar pit. That being said this would have to be balanced for a competitive format like wolves den and the ranked modes coming in 3.2, not for frontlines (unless you made them frontlines only skills? thats not an impossible idea)

as for the positioning part, i just got out of an FL match 10 mins ago where i had 6 captures, went 3/0, got mobbed once and just walked out of them because the white mage has more CC than you can possibly need and people in FL dont understand what fetterward does, positioning in movement and fights is fairly simple provided you dont have tunnel vision, something alot of people suffer from