Is monk fun?

[Silver-Strider]

I never claimed Monk has as good a maintenance tool in RoE as DRG has in BotD. I said that what few fights could not maintain GL, such as through Byakko's quicktime phase, also generally didn't allow for the maintenance of BotD, or indeed any other time-limited resource. Was RoE as good? No. Was it sufficient in the same fights BotD was? Yes. Thus, it was "sufficient to the same extent as BotD was."

Except it wasn't? You could instantly apply BotD right back with minimal downtime whereas MNK had to rebuild from scratch over again and even PB had a small wind up to it due to requiring several GCDs to get GL back up.

Heavensward didn't have RoF slow-down, either, and yet it had HF and SP.
5.0 Shadowbringers had RoF slow-down, and yet it didn't have HF or SP.
You can theorize whatever reason you want to the removal of HF and SP, but please do not argue causation off something that happened AFTER their removal. If we look at the history of the two aspects, there's not even a correlation.

There was also no reason to remove Touch of Death, Haymaker, Featherfoot, etc. but time has removed those as well. In HW, we had no means of preventing us from clipping Demolish early outside of using ToD and Fracture to delay it as much as possible. The delay become less needed with the RoF slow doing that for us naturally in SB and now with GL4, we can literally refresh Demolish after 3 Snap Punches with minimal fall off, assuming we don't have to back away for a mechanic.

Anatman gives 1 GL per minute during uptime. Wind Tackle-Riddle of Wind gives 2.

This is flat out wrong and honestly leaves me questioning your credibility to everything else you have just said as a result. Riddle of Wind gave you 1 GL stack; The 1st Shoulder Tackle under Fist of Wind would unlock Riddle of Wind, which was a second tackle that refreshed GL and granted the extra stack. It did not and never granted 2 stacks of GL. The fact that you got this wrong leaves me questioning whether or not you actually ever even did do the Tornado Kick rotation at all or are just inferring based on comments that you've read and if that is the case, you have no idea wtf you're talking about at all.