You always have to keep in mind that there's still improvements made to the battle and class system. While SE is tweaking some stuff here and there it's ok to actually give feedback on what's working and what not.

Ranged Attackers will always have an advantage over the close range melee's. That won't change at any given moment.

Imagine a fight between a bowman and a swordsman. Just a simple 1 vs 1. The swordsman actually have to get in close range to deal damage and the bowman has to keep distance. This means both have to run in circles over and over, they'll never reach one of them if they both want to damage the opposite person.

In terms of balancing issues it would be an acceptable way to improve close range melee damage and decrease ranged attacks a little bit. Not too much because the "solo-statement" is valid.

I also like the idea to add some buffs or debuff attacks to the archers. So their reduced damage is getting a kick with those buffs oder debuffs.
But if they add.. lets say a group-buff via a WS which temporarily rises attacking speed, damage, acc or w/e.. the close range melee's will complain about not having some nifty buffs as well, I bet. Just speculating here.

Just wait what SE is coming up for the battle and class improvements in 1.19 and 1.20. Maybe the world will look completly different after that, again.

Just don't whine too much. I don't want that the same thing happen to SE which happend to Blizzard. Kids moaning on the forum "nerf class xyz", it's getting nerfed and other players will call their class to weak and other's too strong and etc etc. Balancing is a process which will happen all the time, of course, but not when a majority of players are just whining. I don't want that. I always liked it to play "hard-to-play" classes which might be not so good than the rest, because it's a challange to do so. And if you're good at your job it's complelty rewarding.

Just wait and show some patience, is all we can do for now.

Oh and.. if they ever add some DPS Meter shit, where everyone claims "I gotz 1k moar dps than you lolz, you suck, l2p" then I'm definetaly gonna quit. I can understand that more DPS means faster and maybe easier fights, but completly ditching the other people will just destroy the community feelings.

Last word on this....... GIMMEH MAH BLUE MAGE OMGZ =D