I feel like when I do well as ranged, it's not because I was making good plays or smart decisions, I just "got away with it"
Idk how it is in Aether or Primal, but in Crystal, you can usually count the people that hit over 200k damage on your fingers, across all three teams.
I think if more people actually played this mode in the way the developers designed it, not "CAN I BEAT THE ELITE FOUR WITHOUT USING A SINGLE GCD?????", there would be many more calls to buff ranged.