Positional Requirements for Melee DPS

[Atreides]

monk is not the highest ST dps... please do some research....there are SELECT encounters where monk can outdps a blm but across the board no.....and generally yes you are only there because the fight benefits from having a melee limit break option....

It's the other way around, there are very few encounters, where a BLM can outdps a monk, but those are ONLY the ones that involve several adds but we're talking strictly about Single Target DPS and that is where monks blow BLM out of the water even after the buffs. If he doesn't then he is just bad.
Even in fights like T9 the monk should at least be on par with the BLM if not higher and this is an annoying encounter for monks.
Also Ninja has less positional requirements than monk so I don't see the problem.