So... monk’s 60-70 skills

[Cabalabob]

Not necessarily, SMN can't switch pets on the fly, wasted GCD, mp cost, cast time and all the "effects" of the pets are active abilities tied to a shared CD. With monk, the stances are oGCD skills with passive benefits. You can switch stance depending on what the situation calls for. Does using wind for chakra build beat fire dps? Perhaps, but once chakra is built we can switch to fire with no drawbacks, burst phase, then switch back to wind, once again, with no drawbacks. Can you hit your positionals? Yes? use fire/wind, no? use earth and you can swap between those as the fight demands.

This combined with the riddles would make switching stances more efficient than sitting in one stance. Even if wind becomes a dps increase over fire, you’d still want to switch to fire to use riddle of fire which would be a temporary increase over wind.