What I would like to see in future monk!

[Shurrikhan]

So, "The outcry of "But they've tried so many different ways to fix it!" since ARR is disingenuous."? But pointing to a version of the game that existed more than a decade ago and played vastly differently as an example of fist stances working isn't?

The idea has been there have been multiple attempts since ARR to fix stances, and thus there must not be any way to fix it. There have been no further adjustments to the stances themselves since ARR except to adjust the % damage on Fists of Fire, which they'd already left as the 24/7 stance, equitable to a mere damage aura buff to Monk when they don't want to bother with individual potency buffs.

At the same time, the only other take on stances, by which Fists of Wind affected all matters of speed (Attack, Recast, and Movement), accomplished the very things people are adamant can never be accomplished.

When you call something singular (ARR-ShB's version of stance) multiple, and ignore the literal half of all other versions (pre-ARR) to make your point, yeah, that's disingenuous.

There's nothing about the game state that allowed for FoW at that time to exist as a combat stance competing with FoF. It was the simple fact that it offered offensive benefits comparable to FoF.

Version 1: Attack, Recast, and Movement Speed. (This therefore has benefit for oGCDs--especially those such as Steel Peak, which would otherwise fall out of sync with raid buffs, allows for differing rotations, and is optimal over FoF during low-potency GCDs.)
Version 2: Movement Speed.

See the difference?

All these expansions since ARR, and they've never once tried to tie offensive benefits to FoW or FoE themselves, only to either lock GL generation or GL states to it. And we wonder why it fails to compete with the only stance with offensive benefits... for offense?

:: Also, this game hasn't been out for a decade yet, even if counting from 1.x. Heck, since ARR it's been fewer than 7 years.