I basically expect nothing from SE regarding monk.

There have been plenty of threads and efforts to reach out to the developers from players in Japan, their monk thread is hundreds of pages long. If the developers are going to outright ignore the feedback and requests from those players for years on end, what chance does the rest of the community have? It's disillusioning, and it's worse when you consider other threads that have cropped up over the past six months where people have called for the job to get nerfed into the ground, without even thinking about the mechanical issues that have brought the job up to this point.

Yeah, it's a defeatist stance to take, but I'm not the one who is responsible for balancing the game and ignoring long standing grievances for years on end.