I don't disagree with you there, but I'm just trying to be as realistic as I can be with what the most simple, straightforward and practical/cost effective changes we're likely to get in the immediate future. As much as I'd love a total rework (which this was the opportunity for, what with the battle system changes), it's unlikely we'd be getting any of that before 6.0. So, based on what we have right now, I just feel like getting Somersault and Axe Kick put into PvE would immediately fix the huge glaring problems with the rotation as it is now, and is the quickest short-term solution without doing a deep-dive into hardcore number adjustments for everything, or reworking core aspects of the job.

Everything else is to me a valid talking point but one best reserved for a later date after these more high-priority fixes are implemented in the short term, where we can sit and properly re-evaluate core aspects of the job under microscopic scrutiny. With the immediacy of the Eden raids coming in a week and a half, and the Savage raids coming two weeks after that, there isn't enough time to deliberate on overhauling the job to that degree, or even considering newer traits or heavy rebalancing. It needs something quick, simple and cost-effective in the here and now so MNKs can have a better sense of comfort once the raid hits, and these two oGCDs would provide that. It'd a) give an immediate stack of GL, and b) give you something to do in those windows where you'd be bored with nothing else to push since when they culled stuff from SB, they took a tad too much off the top. It's these oGCDs that help these jobs get a sense of speed and variety when woven in-between the GCDs, after all.

For now I think this is the best, simplest, most effective and inexpensive course of action we can get in the near future to alleviate the major woes, which are points a) and b) written above. MNK will feel faster if it can have more to weave with, even with the GCD slowed down with certain gear and melds. But it needs that and something to give it a GL stack. So this is my recommendation.