I think you are still desperately clinging to anything to make survival be a “ranged” spec. Its not, get over it.
Survival in pvp is a melee/ranged hybrid. Meaning that we can do decent “poke” dmg from range but when its time to be a threat we need to be in melee. We cannot be in melee at all times because we are not warrior/dk/rets and we cannot stand toe to toe with them constantly (kind of like every other non plate melee in the game) so we weave in and out.
Go ahead and try to twist this into “SuRv Is MoRe RaNgEd!” Or, just realize your wrong.