Monk 4.2 Adjustments

[Sylvain]

Why is it that the developers are so reluctant to make changes to Monk? What is it about Monk specifically they find too delicate to touch?

They are reluctant to make change to every single job.
You have the same question and complain for almost every job, just look at BLM with Freeze and Scaith to name a few, there's been over 9000 post of good suggestions and those skills are still around, useless as they can be.

Basically, unless something needs to be adressed because it makes the job unplayable or the design goes against what SE want for the job, they won't adresse it.
For example, DRK at the beggining of 4.0 had huge mana issue in dungeon, we were starving, they added a mana regen effect to Quietus which made DRK much more enjoyable.
Another exemple, the Ruin rework of SMN, they litterally killed SMN mana management. They either did this because they didn't like SMN tooling like this, to simplify an already quite complex job or perhaps both. (I mean, Ruin 4.1+ is much easier to work around than ruin 4.0)

MNK doesn't seem to have any urgent issue that need to be adressed. So their issue will be adressed slowly so they can control better how their change affect the job.

Some change, altough they seem minimal can have huge impact on the job, it's better (for them) to gradually buff than buff/nerf every patch (like they did for MCH turret, buffed to 6% to then be brought back to 5% one patch later).

There's a crap ton of things that need to be adressed, but unless your job is utterly broken (and by broken I don't mean it has useless skills; I mean borderline unplayable) don't expect more than potency adjustment and one or two change to a select few skills. (I mean, you got a new effect to one of your skills, in some way that's a huge change)