Devs: A Monk front-facing combo. (Positional Requirement)

[Spartan117]

As a T9 monk going on to T10, let me educate you through all your points.

-Boss adds.
Not your business, that's what OT is for. In any case you need to tank a bee in T6 or T9 golem, hit your directionals early when the mob spawns, once it gets going you'll never lose aggro to any class, a slight indicator that the DPS loss from frontal attack may be insignificant in the short run.

-Bosses with no flank or back to attack.
No idea what you are talking about here cause in my whole life I have never encountered such an enemy in FFXIV:ARR. If you are talking about Leviathan, the tail is the back and the side of the tail is the flank. Read up more.

-Emergencies when I need to kill a monster that is facing me before I am killed.
Why are you in such a position in the first place? You're meant to be a damage dealer while minimizing damage taken so that the healer does not need to peel his attention off the main tank. Is it because you tried to bite more than you can chew?

-Playing with a bad tank, keeping a mob looking at me so that it doesn't turn back to the healer.
Bad tank doesn't mean monk skills bad. Flawed logic. It's not meant to be played that way. You might as well give every class tanking abilities, healing abilities and dps abilities so every becomes a hybrid in each class JUST IN CASE SOMEONE IN YOUR PARTY SUCKS.

-Playing with a bad tank that either moves the mob too much or doesn't position it correctly leaving me to get hit by aoes.
Same as above. Flawed logic. Bad tank != Monk skills suck

-Keeping hate on a mob to stay off the healer while they revive the tank.
Same as above. Flawed logic. Bad tank or maybe even the healer != Monk skills suck

-PVP, because who is going to stand there and let you hit them from your strongest positions.
Because PVP is all about stun locks, priority target and positional dodging. Monk's best asset in PVP is to pin point the priority target (usually SMN or healers), shoulder charge in, one ilm punch, steel peak, silence. Of course there's mechanics that counter this, PVP is like scissors paper stone literally. It boils down to how to cheat out your target's scissors before going in with paper for his stone.

I believe 99.99% of the community believe that the game which you think is mediocre is actually damn freaking awesome, and I personally take that most of the points you have raised about monk as an insult because of your lack of understanding. Most of us actually are not too bothered by positionals at all and are pretty much happy to stay out of harms way and hit bosses from the back and yet still top DPS charts like nobody's business because we bother to train and get used to the game mechanics. So really, the advice is to quit whining and bring out the best in the class in the way it's meant to be played.