Okay, I already like commented on like a change that would help RPDPS, but I need to like answer the topic because this totally bugs me.

No the role is not gone but being able to keep a distance by playing keep away is definitely much more limited than before, and is definitely not like a reverse HW. Everything was just stripped down to the necessary and made hyper-consistent to like a detriment in several cases, and like the usual number of jobs left totally messed-up like AST and some jobs becoming totallly op because of their simple design (BLM, WHM, PLD) or just by being WAR