Monk Needs a Complete Rework

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Devs are biased against monk and any ignorance they have with regards to the job is willful and malicious.

Eh, I don't think they're biased *against* Monk even if it frequently feels like they are biased towards certain jobs when it comes to how much effort they put into new actions/traits (like Black Mage consistently getting amazing additions). The problem with Monk is the devs have admitted to being clueless as to how to progress Monk, but in spite of this when they make a misstep like they did in Stormblood and now Shadowbringers, they're aggressively slow when it comes to actually implementing any of that feedback. We complained about Stormblood Monk from the get go and we got hand ringing but no action about it even on Shadowbringers Launch. The overwhelming design of Shadowbringers action is "GL Upkeep Skill, More Fist Stance stuff when you'll only want to use one stance, and taking out low end skill to put them on higher levels but worse!" which were all complaints about Stormblood Monk. When they finally did implement a small amount of the feedback we gave them... they turned around and ruined it by making what had just become a useless action even more useless for many of its intended use cases and only made it unpleasant for its unintended use case.

Compare to Samurai, who got Shoha changed in a single patch after player's complained.