So...is the Ranged Role gone? Are we in a Reverse HW?

[Karshan]

And as Lastelli noted, you could count on one hand the amount of speed kills running double Caster in every single fight combined. This idea the Range are on the cusp of being replaced is simply a myth. It hasn't happened this entire tier including an Ultimate fight where Black Mage, and especially Summoner, were absolute monsters. Of course, I do still think the Range are doing less than they should but they aren't being excluded nor will they come 5.2.

I reply to you but also Lastelli : nowhere did I say they were being replaced. I just said the second part of your post : they are behind. Not that they are left behind. Nuance.
But they're objectively behind rDPS wise for no specific / valuable reason.

I do not fear them being replaced. Like you both said, a quick look at comps and they're still there. It's just that it bothers me to see discrepancies when there are no valid reason for them to exist in the first place. Maybe I'm a maniac but when you see something uneven, you even it. Maybe it's just me.