It’s okay to stop enjoying something because of the direction they take a job. I, personally, find it overwhelming to manage but part of that is because it’s operating at a level I’m not used to. As someone who has always enjoyed something about monk (aside from that time they thought it would be fun to make Riddle of Fire slow down your GCD, that might have been my least favorite) I can completely understand where you’re coming from, aside from the feeling slow. It hasn’t changed too much from SHB to now in terms of GCD speed and has more OGCDs and is far more active as a job than most others. Sure it’s not STB levels of insanity with your chakras filling like crazy, but I don’t see how you can feel it’s slower.

Perhaps playing a different job and taking a break from it might do you some good to appreciate what it has. Because currently I find current monk, at the very least, the most active class below 70. I now exclusively play tank or it in any roulette where I’ll be synched and I think we should talk about how much we appreciate that. Hell I’ll go make a post about that right now.