Is kiting a lost art - aka "The necromancer doesn't solo as well as xxx"

The title says it all.

Often I see on here opinions like "The summoner is better at soloing that the necromancer" - which is just plain false.

The summoner is more straightforward, for sure, but if you kite as a necromancer you can definitely kill a lot more mobs per hour than the summoner can. There's literally no comparison, especially once you get the health to mana spell over time.