Kiting is good.
Pink Eye had some amazing kiting in the monk run he has on youtube.
However, if I switch the weapons of the frontliners to ranged or if they cast something, and then wait until the enemies run under fire to my party - is it sill kiting or what? Why should the party rush ahead unless it is a scripted encounter? My party almost always sees the enemies before they start attacking. What's wrong with that?
Or course, the A.I. should have shot the party from the distance as well, and due to increased stats could have won the encounter - but it rarely does that. At least in Kingmaker.