They have been slowly edging positionals out over the years with the addition of True North and constantly lowering the penalty for a missed positional. They really should just finish the job as positionals are a relic of a different game. As a melee DPS is just gets frustrating all the times where you have no True North ready and need to do mechanics but can't (or can't safely) do positionals at no fault of your own. Speaking nothing of all the enemies that regularly and frequently turn to lob an attack on the group making you have to learn the timing and hoping you can anticipate where you need to be for a modest damage increase every time it occurs.

Other games have managed to make compelling melee gameplay without an over-reliance on having to dance about an enemy to edge out your damage. Besides melee already have the trouble of uptime to deal with.