1 - I disagree on the outmelee part. It isn't a guarantee. You admitted that yourself after dying to a few ragers. If you're a cloud giant ranger fighting a sword/mace spec with wrath weapons, then ouch. Quad outmelee'd my cloud ranger with hands but I was not hasted.
2 - Disagree again on ambush disarm. Ranger doesn't learn polearm so good luck. Plus, if you get the disarm off, anyone competent is going to wield an alternate weapon first and then get the one disarmed. Plus, you're most likely to hit the charge set on the ambush disarm to begin with. So scratch that.
3 - Hold return/brandish is quite good, yes. I bet very few Outlander rangers actually have a staff of return on them at the moment.
4 - Wrong. A warrior can charge set even while snared. I asked about it like 8 years ago when I had a Scarab cloud ranger. By design per Valg.
Judgment should come from fighting heros, not midbie ragers and other random assorted pks.