A smallish bit of news from a recent interview with Yoshi

https://massivelyop.com/2020/09/22/i...-in-patch-5-3/

"As for how where we’ll land with Monk, I don’t think I can say what the player impression will be in terms of scale just yet. I don’t want speculations to go too far from anything I say here and cause any problems down the line, but what I can say for now is that we are significantly changing internal processing for the job, and the work that the development team is putting in is no small order. They’re working hard towards a finished product, if you could please be patient for just a while longer!"

I get he doesn't want to say much yet and he's clearly playing this alot closer to his chest than when he was talking about Monk prior to SHB releasing but boy do I not feel confident about the rework that awaits us. As of late I decided to pick up Ninja again after not really feeling it post rework and now I love it... if Monk gets reworked this well, then I'd be willing to sweep the past under the rug and move on but if it's bad then I'm afraid I might end up ditching it for Ninja which feels bad but there's no point trying to push through on a job that just gets the short end of the stick constantly.