MONK is to confusing / annoying of a class now

[Shurrikhan]

Blitz being a clunky, janky, turd on top of a now gutted monk is the biggest issue though. There are ways to fix it, but why adamantly defend the integrity of a mechanic that actively drags down the entire class like this?

I defend Blitz because it brings back the rotational string manipulation that I loved about ARR and HW Monk, but better and more integrally than those iterations did.

4.3 Monk is still my favorite iteration of the job, but 6.x is just some handful of minor changes short of surpassing it, imo, and despite my earlier reservations, I think that Blitz is honestly a better core mechanic even than speed manipulation under 4.3 Monk's TK rotations (and I was one of the few to adamantly defend that over Shadowbringers Monk precisely because it offered nuance in manipulating rotational strings -- via RoF and TK speed-drops -- just as Blitz does now). Blitz provides towards the very things that made our identity work so well in the past: optimizing rotation via rotational insertions of variable length.

Would I have kept Fists of X if they were actually made to do anything of note? Sure, at least if they provided a means of manipulating/optimizing our rotational strings.
Would I have kept GL? Only if it actually again provided that core Monk identity of manipulating/optimizing rotational strings and acted as a legitimate resource of sorts with commensurate available payoff (upon being spent) for its ramp-up, as it somewhat did via TK in 4.3 (and ToD and Fracture, instead, did in ARR and HW).
And given that Blitz already provides that and makes our rotational insertions more frequent and interesting through the revised PB, I'm in no rush to find a place for GL again despite having been a huge proponent for it in the past (when it actually did something through its contexts).