I almost exclusively play ranged jobs in anything remotely serious though, so take this with a grain of salt.

Do people actually like positionals? also with true north and earth's reply (?) you don't even really have positionals anyways. Positionals being an additional "only 20pts" is still a considerable amount of dps as well given greased lightning speeding you up. I personally don't really see positionals as a good thing, increasing damage? neat. Being required for a combo/skill to work (like old trick attack)? Awful. I feel like reliance on positionals takes away whatever control you have when you have to do mechanics, have a bad tank in dungeons, etc.

hopefully some of that made sense since i just browsing right before bed