You get the same affect if you go slow. Click gate once you transport outside castle, click gate again you transport inside castle. So, you are saying that if you click the gate twice you end up back inside? Is that not what is supposed to happen? Your lag just caused you to miss viewing the microsecond you were outside.
I know you would end up on the other side for a microsecond. But no, I don't believe that this is the desired behavior. The previous behavior is what is desired, because if you click the gate, 99.9% of the time you'd want to be on the other side of the gate. I personally had no issues/annoyances before this change, and now this behavior is just annoying in siege.
Also, a lot of times, you'd naturally double click on the gate, once to target it, and once to use it. Its a fairly natural reaction, since if you're not precisely within range to use the gate, clicking on it to target it will not teleport you to the other side, and most of us don't instinctively know exactly how close we need to be for 1 click to do both, and its just easier and more natural to click twice, where the second click will both put your toon on autorun and use the gate when within range.