As far as wanting a front facing combo, it likely won't ever happen because adding abilities to a game takes a ton of dev time. What you should probably ask for is just the "off position" damage potencies to be increased by 10-20 potency for all attacks that have positioning requirements (except the one that auto crits since that would not work). So instead of (Snap punch-Delivers an attack with a potency of 140. 180 when delivers from a target's flank.), you would have (Snap punch-Delivers an attack with a potency of 160. 180 when delivers from a target's flank.)

Implementing that change would make you more effective from the front of an enemy, while also not incentivizing you to ever be in front of an enemy (where you should never, never be except in rare cases) The only downside to this is that it would likely be a little too strong of a pvp buff for monk, so it might have to stay the original potencies there. All other effects I can think of are negligible