Melee may not necessarily kill your enemies, but even on the hardest difficulty I find myself melee enemies and still living to finish them off. The Hunter has the best melee options of all characters. The warlocks is pretty safe also because their melee has range. The only one who is left behind is the Titan.
Melee will however always be dangerous when the Killswitch modifier is on in poe. Poe 35 is the only place where melee really suicidal. And yet I still do it and live to kill Skolas.
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The problem isn't with melees themselves, it's with melee abilities and the strength stat.