Where do melee champions go if not top?

Yes, this is another thread regarding ranged champion dominance and ranged top laners. But unlike the others I am addressing detractors directly. Specifically one thing. Now before I get into this, let us clarify. By ranged champions people are NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST BASIC ATTACKS, we are aware for example that Rumble is 'melee'. He also has ranged spells and poke out the butt. Ranged basic attacks just make the matter even worse. We are talking about ranged harass. This post isn't about solutions or individual champion balance(such as bloated ranged champion problems). It is about one statement.

"Range top laners is for diversity, top doesn't belong to melee champions."

So three points:

1: Why not? Bottom belongs to ranged ADC and a large portion of supports are ranged. Mid almost completely belongs to ranged champions, even the 'melee' champions usually have ranged poke, like Zed or Diana. Again we are talking about RANGED HARASS, not just basic attacks. So why can't top belong to melee champions? If there are two lanes almost completely dedicated to ranged poke and harass(which is what we are talking about, not just ranged AAs), what is wrong with ONE lane being dedicated to melee? Even a large portion of meta junglers have ranged harass such as Nid, Elise, Gragas and Graves.

2: There is a difference between having diversity and having a complete reversal. In the past almost all top laners were melee, now it isn't 50/50, the amount of top laners who have ranged AAs and poke is now the large majority. That isn't diversity, it is simply a shift to the opposite.

3: Where else are the melee champions suppose to go? This is what people are not answering. Sure, SOME can migrate to jungle . But a ton of the melee only top laners cannot go anywhere else. They cannot effectively mid, bot pretty much must be ADC and support due to the meta, and many of them have no jungle clear. Where else are they suppose to go?

To clarify, I am a former Teemo main and played a lot of Jayce too. I also love Quinn as a champion even though I do not play her much. I hate champions like Darius, Garen, Mundo and Renekton from past PTSD(This is humor, not serious). But at this point and time, I actually feel sorry for anybody who mains these champions, because beyond low levels of play where they can get by because people don't know how to lane, gank and close out games, they don't stand a chance. And even if they win, it is after an utterly miserable 10-20 minutes of...

poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke... poke...

DISCLAIMER: Again, I don't play melee tops, no bias here. I also realize SOME melees can thrive in top. But the ones who do are mostly champions who were already designed with ranged enemies in mind, for example and were designed to go mid against mages so they can work top, not always but they can(Also they even have ranged poke of their own, not as much, but some). Is a special exception, she is always at least somewhat viable just due to her kit design. I also am not saying ranged top laners should not exist, they always have. It just wasn't ever this miserable.

The PRIMARY victim top laners being addressed here are: Forgive me if I forgot any particular champions for either side of the matter. Or if one or two of these are more viable than I am making it out to be. I'm tired and just getting this typed out as quickly as possible.