I was going to downvote you Ujin until I noticed your "kudos".
This is the age old "fight" between melee and ranged, I won't get too far into it but anything that you can't hit back with in melee is frustrating, believe me I can understand that, that's where I get my kicks from being an archer. If I run off, and you can't catch me, it makes me grin but personally I find that gets boring, and I get bigger kicks from killing off my aggressors with my melee weapon.
It's down to the player, their style of play and how they react to situations.
Being brutaly honest, this isn't a problem. The game is more balanced than it has ever been, but there are always going to be people who find something unfair, my personal bugbear is the ridiculousness of cavalry and their "bump-stabs" with lances, that's just so frustrating, they can do something that I can't, they're difficult to avoid, and once that horse even brushes against you, you're helpless to defend.
Same thing with the ranged, as a 2 hander/polearms fellow, you're helpless to defend from an arrow or bolt, but at the end of the day, you chose to be slow and only hit things within arms reach, whereas we chose to be fast and hit things from a range. Both of those have their heavy disadvantages, yours being your lack of range and slow movement speed while ours is our lack of any proper armour or melee capabilities.
It's a real grey area, some people will say it's a problem, and others such as myself won't see one, because it's someones disadvantage and some elses advantage.
I am merely re-itterating what many many people have said before and the likelihood that it will change is probably very slim, the people more detatched from individual classes, those with many alts who play many different styles and are far more versatile will be able to pick up on flaws much easier than those, such as myself once again, or a lot of you melee players who will see only their way so, forgive me if I sound biased!
Regardless of all that, range will always piss melee off, cav will always piss everyone off etc etc and that's the way it is. There are many different classes that one can chose to be, Crossbowman, Archer, Lancer, 1H Cavalry, 2H Cavalry, 2H Swordsman, Sword & Board, Pikeman, Phalanx, the list goes on, they all have their pros and cons and they won't always be suited to taking down another given class.
Reducing the archers running speed will do nothing, it'll just make them more reluctant to get close to their enemies and you will probably catch less due to the fact that they will literally throw down their arms and retreat while allowing them to have melee capabilities will only fuel more rage against them, because they will be the "perfect multi-class of range & melee" which suits no one.
Sorry for the long post but this is all I will say on the matter, it's been gone over so many times that there isn't anything I can say that won't have already been said but on top of that, I don't want to get into an argument with anyone. I'm sure we all have better uses of our time! 
I readily admit that I have a biased view but I try and compromise in game anyway!