I know you dont give a flying fkery at all about the old classes, but please could you have a look at ranger skills that are with us for almost a decade already?
Most of them are not able to hit enemies that are vertically 1 meter different from the source of damage. You repaired it on other classes and just stopped to care at all.
ALL of the ranger skills suffer from really small AOE vertically, including skills like Wailing wind or prime: ultimate blasting gust, if the enemy is like few centimeters above or below, then ranger either loss most of her damager or dont do anything at all. This makes ranger awakening uplayable in pvp basically.
Majority of the classes suffer from this.
Also ranger is actually one of the few that actually benefits from vertical axis abuse.
Ranger has issues, especially ranger awakening. Honestly though, this is the least of her issues. Verticality seems to be even worse on other classes. I heard a long time ago they would do something about this, but it seems to have been forgotten.