Monks need a projectile!

[VentVanitas]

When it comes to ranged attacks, Monk in other Final Fantasy games actually has quite a lot to draw from- hell, even Bravely Default if you want to be loose since XIV has already taken inspiration from FF spin off series like Tactics Ogre.

I wouldn't chalk MNK not having a spot pulling skill up to SE being stubborn about wanting the job to be pure melee. That's more or less the dev team being lazy or not knowing how to give it proper job fantasy or inspiration (because let's be honest, Monk has no job fantasy at all) since they've been spending the past 6 years giving it new ways to trivialize Greased Lightning only to end up removing it entirely, and not any actual new skills of substance for MNK's identity.

I can only blindly hope this is rectified in 6.0 since Yoshi P specifically stated in the post showcase interview that their focus for skills in Endwalker will be for job fantasy.