When it comes to the concept of “making a melee without positionals would just create a two tiered system with either an enforced damage difference or the positional melee working harder for the same result” doesn’t this functionally already exist with the melees

Like I mean monk without its positionals is still harder than RPR with reapers positionals, couldn’t by that logic you are that MNK (I’m not saying MNK itself I more mean as a hypothetical) doesn’t actually need its positionals to fit into the melee meta as it would still be harder than RPR without them

Couldn’t VPR just be as complex as say MNK then without positionals do something akin to RPR’s damage (as an example)