I was a Monk main for a long time too, ARR to early SB, it was severly bad at the start of SB but got really good at the end of it, only to be completely destroyed TWICE in Shb.

Monk never came back to its former glory, even today it's not great and very boring to me. Samurai took a hard hit as well in the middly of an xpack, making it completely dead to me. All the job flavour is gone. No more big hits (what's the point in casting big attacks if they hit that low ???). Casting Iaijutsus after a GCD feels like something is missing, there is a moment of nothing between the two that feels absolutely awful.

I keep seeing the same shit, SE butchering functioning jobs for no reason.