Positionals are completely fine and unintrusive. They give you something to think about while you are executing your rotation, which adds a small layer of depth to the role. Players that want to go the extra mile can show off their stuff by missing as few positionals as possible, while players that don't want to engage with them can just ignore them and not miss much.

The biggest issue I see regarding positionals is feedback and that hitting them doesn't feel rewarding, I actually thought they solved this issue in Shadowbringers with Raiden Thrust, where you hit the last positional correctly and True Thrust morphs into a cooler/stronger skill, but they nixed this in Endwalker, so I don't know.

I sincerely doubt they will ever truly remove positionals, which is fine, engage with them if you want, or don't. Personally, I'd make the penalty for missing positionals higher to alleviate the "they don't add much dps" complaint, but that would just widen the skill gap when the devs want to lower it.