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excellent post, excellent questions
What you have detailed are the starting positions for the Lead when nothing special is happening. However, once you have a play in your area to take care of, you need to position yourself so that you obtain the best possible look at the play.
If you have two players close to the end line even way out wide near the 3 pt arc, then you need to step off the end line (get some depth) so that you can see the up and the down. The contact up high that you need to decide on foul or no foul as well as having a look at the feet for traveling or stepping OOB are both important.
So you need to not be so rigid with your positioning. What you have been taught is only the starting positioning. You need to adapt it to the action that you are trying to officiate. That is a very important concept that is often missed with newer officials.
Lastly, yes, part of the T's job is to help with traveling by the post players. Those players are normally tall and it is often difficult for the Lead to see travels on these players while having to look up in order to judge contact situations. Depth is not always an option as the Lead on many courts! This is why you have been taught to work wide. If you can't get deep, sometimes you can compensate for that by working wide and this will give you a similar vantage point.
I hope that helps you.
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