I absolutely agree with you.
In the current state of the game, that's how it looks. But I also think that's a self-solvable problem in the future.
When you get to actually choose your class (that happens after leaving Rookgaard in the original game) you kinda have pros and cons to everything.
Paladins, the class using distance weapons, hit WAY harder than other classes, but don't have access to many elements to do so.
Knights have way better survivability against strong monsters and Sorcereres/Druids have elements and AOE damage to compensate.
So yeah, Distance is more like a gimmick in the start and it's overpoweredeness in the end is a perk to compensate for other things