I will ask the question, does Monk really need a ranged attack? At range, Monk will mostly be charging Chakra's anyway, so it will conflict with that. Then you have to consider, if I spend a Chakra on this ranged attack, would that one stack potentially been better spent on Forbidden Chakra, especially since charges are (presumably) still RNG gated.

Even if you don't have the chakra cost, you then have to weight it up with chakra generation. Am I gaining more potency spending this GCD on a ranged attack or generating Chakra. Most jobs don't have anything on the GCD that they use to build resources that can be used at range, which is why they can have a ranged attack in the first place.