How is monk after the rework?

[AnotherPerson]

The gutting of Monk began when Shadowbringers launched. Heck, those who were paying attention saw the rework during the press release and collectively though, "oh, no..." They then made it worse halfway through the expansion. What, was all of that just setup for Endwalker, which is totally going to have the most like, awesomest Monk ever omg guys they've had SOOOO long to work on it.

Yeah, people were complaining how some didn't like the SB iteration of MNK, some people liked the HW iteration of MNK, etc. So ShB came and they changed MNK again. However, the whole point of MNK getting reworked is because everyone complained about it for multiple expansions. They literally this mentioned in 5.3 that MNK will need to be reworked and addressed this issue by saying they will change it, but a full rework won't be done because they're in the middle of the expansion. At this point, you're just ranting and not looking at the facts by saying how they started gutting MNK in ShB and signals the start of ShB setting things up for Endwalker. No, that's not how it works. Every job got changed in Shadowbringers to have a more solid base foundation - which is why all tanks and healers basically function the same compared to their SB iteration even if people don't like the current changes.

And come on, if they were using the Monk rework as a selling point for the expansion they would have actually mentioned it.

Machinist got reworked but it wasn't the poster-boy of Shadowbringers either. That belonged to DRK due to the storyline direction while we got the new jobs DNC and GNB. Likewise, Endwalker will focus on the new jobs Sage and Reaper, and was stated they wanted to make Paladin the poster boy of the expansion. It doesn't mean other jobs which do get changed or reworked are going to be the main focus either. They already mentioned MNK is getting a rework and SMN is going to change because it's at a breaking point, which is already enough to look forward to. Again, whether those changes will be better or worse is unknown, but at least they're doing something about it.

Unless, you want MNK to literally get the same band-aid treatment as before where new skills have niche usage and most of the damage is from your level 1 bootshine combo?