People seem to be missing the point that this is a slight rework that will hopefully lay the foundation of an improved monk in 6.0. The expansion isn't that far off people and I'm sure the changes made to monk this time around will accommodate the way monk works in the expansion. Im sure most jobs will play totally different as usual. Maybe I'm just being too optimistic.

Either way, the monk changes aren't bad. As people have stated the positional are still there, you just don't have to build up stacks anymore which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Being a player since around 2.5, I personally don't mind things being easier. I like AST now, Monk has always been a favorite of mine and I enjoy that too. I'll never understand how people need things to be overly complicated or difficult to be fun.