Quote Originally Posted by Powercow View Post
A lot of us old Monk players are super jaded. I appreciate the optimism, and it's entirely possible Monk will get some cool, badass feature in EW that makes then super interesting and fun but... well like I've said before, if SE knew how to do that they woulda done it when Monk stagnated hard going into Stormblood.
It's also the case that this isn't the first time Monk has been in this situation. In Heavensward Monk had major issues and the devs declared that the job balance was overall too screwed up for them to do anything further, so they gave up and gave us Stormblood Monk, which was very poorly received on Launch. Then after all of Stormblood and all of the criticism of that, where the devs actively said on Stream that they thought Stormblood Monk was a poor direction for the job and that they were taking feedback to improve it they made... Shadowbringers Monk, which was basically just 4.0 Monk but worse. The most attention they ever gave Monk was the 5.4 changes and as VentVanitas so summarized so well, they arguably made the job feel worse by exacerbating existing problems.

The devs have by their own actions given every reason for Monk players to be skeptical that the job will ever get better, so I imagine people are going to continue complaining until they prove us wrong. Maybe they will, but twice bitten, thrice shy at this point.