How exactly am I barely playing it? Because I just got back started again after a 2 year hiatus? Ok.
As for your actual question; first I’ll say streamers are a plague on gaming society. People tend to take their words as sacrosanct, when they have personal/financial stakes in the game to begin with so will never be unbiased.
As for an example I can think of past mage streamers, during an RMP meta, who would cry about mages actually being weak because this and that.
The reason I believe monk is in a good spot is because they’re not paper thin and fall over at the first sign a dps passes wind in their direction.
They’re basic dps outside of cds and procs isn’t the strongest, but it’s not terrible either.
Their full burst is actually pretty strong and shorter cds than most people’s big defensives.
All their cds are short, so the ability to reset between goes is easier than it’s been in a while.
Problem is patience is something a lot of people in this game doesn’t have anymore, they think if you can’t just pve rotation and W key to victory then something is weak.