Is that some sort of "early access" joke ?

[DPZ2]

So from the first leaked tooltips, to early access, MNK looks to be far behind the other DPS. From the beginning people've been telling us to "calm down" and "it's not the final build".

Welcome to the world of the 3.x Bard.

It does get better, but probably not until SE sees actual numbers in dungeon and raid instances ... which is when such things tend to get adjusted.