I feel like they just aren't putting love into the job and they don't know what to add.

It doesn't help that other titles in the series don't really give much inspiration either, monk was always just the hit hard job with not much else going on.

I don't want them to make another dancer clone... but the only thing that I could think of that might make the job feel more fresh again would be to add blitzes like from FFVI. Enter in the right combo of moves to do a big damage attack, and perhaps they could upgrade over time or change based off fist stance. But as I mentioned, entering in a combo of moves is basically dancer/ninja now... and there would need to be a different way to add that in.

Either way I agree, the job needs help, they've gutted out too much from it, and now the job is kind of dull to play.