My 2 cents as a former main monk during ARR and HW, played it quite a bit in SB as well.

Since Shb, monk got dumbed down a lot, the dev failed to make it interesting and thought players didn't want to play it because of GL.
Of course they were wrong, so instead of improving the job on that, they created more niche skills that you never use like SSS and Anatman.

And now, with all the changes they hyped us with, we get exactly the same job but now GL is a trait, TK is a normal oGCD and the GL animation which was there since ARR is now gone.


I honestly believe SE has no idea about what to do with the job. Like, zero idea. I would also add that the dev team is utterly incompetement at this point. Such misunderstanding is quite baffling. I already gave up on monk this xpack, but now it's like defiling its grave. Shame, Yoshi P.