We would love to use the date range picker to do a month/year range, but from API documentation:
"In order to be able to select dates for the range you need to set the depth to month"

Why not allow depth to be year and the selection range based on months?

https://dojo.telerik.com/@joshua.hamman@one10marketing.com/urugoKOH

Thank you!

When a range is pre-selected in the DateRangePicker the popup will open todays date view by default. 

Include an option that enables navigating to the selected range initially.