Exactly. And this is where we are all coming back to the initial statements at hand.
Warlocks, a
range class through and through, have to strategize before every fight. Knowing every detail about the fight and planning ahead a thousand of iterations and different outcomes to chose the most optimal spot to place the circle and portal to make the most use of it.
More often than now the Portals are actual meant for the raid so they have to get in the minds of other players to think for them aswell.
For example my guild places Portals in a way that melee players have it easier. E.g. Chronomatic Anomaly so that melee players can stay longer on the boss and then jump through the adds. The warlocks even adapt and put new portal the further the fight progress.
I don't know of any
melee class that has to go through such lengths before a fight. They just use their gap closer cooldowns whenenver they need them whereever they need them because they are easy to use and bring you where you want to. No planning needed.
And thank you for bringing that up. It was a perfect example of why range players are, in fact, the better players (on average).