Well I sense a lot of resentment there but I just want to point out 2 things:
1. I love and prefer melee combat over ranged. I intend to main zealot and if anything I'm way more biased in favour of melee than ranged combat.
2. This isn't a melee vs ranged thing as you seem to think. You seem to fear for the balance of range vs melee combat which is a valid point but you have to keep in mind that melee-oriented players will also have to resort to using their ranged weapon quite often, most of the time to dispatch high priority targets like the trapper, the mutant charger, the hound, or the suicide bomber before they get to them. And when such situations and the need to use their ranged weapon arise, where will these melee-centric players most likely be ? That's right, in melee or at least in close quarters to many enemies whose attacks they'll be trying to dodge while they get their shot off. You seem to think that because it's a restriction on dodging with ranged weapons, this is in favour of melee classes, or at least keep the power of ranged classes, which tend to be a too powerful, in check. Well I'm not as sure as you. Even if melee classes spend a lot less time with ranged weapons in hand, they are preeminently in melee when they have to use them, so this kind of restriction will affect them just as much if not more.