Red Mage "better"??

[Archwizard]

Also, I'm still not seeing the connection between CaC and hitting 80/80 to melee. You should be in melee range whenever possible anyway, CaC is just a damage oGCD.

Your auto-attack damage as RDM isn't nearly potent enough (and is hardly fast enough for that matter) to make that a necessity, and Embolden is both predictable enough to reposition yourself before the cast and, thanks to Manafication, frequently lined up with your melee phase anyway.

The obvious intent of the kit, as demonstrated by multiple NPCs (and the devs' refusal to remove Displacement's damage gain), is for the RDM to fire spells at a distance until they reach 80/80, CaC as a gap-closer, combo, Displace back and repeat.
If that's not the way the kit is handled by players then yeah, the devs need to re-examine that.