Is monk fun?

[Shurrikhan]

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.

Not when, I repeat, you do not lose the stacks to begin with. RoE does not help you regain stacks. It helps you not lose them. I've made no comparison between the two skills' ability to generate their respective resources, only their ability to maintain their respective resources.

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.

Technically, there was: a sub-1.85s GCD under GL3.

This is flat out wrong and honestly leaves me questioning your credibility to everything else you have just said as a result.

Are you incapable of dividing events per minute to calculate "GL per minute"?

2 Wind Tackles-Riddle of Wind combos per minute (as they are each on a... 30 second cooldown) = 2 GL per minute. Anatman has a 1-minute CD and is only optimal up to a single tick of the server tick during uptime, i.e. 1 GL per minute.