I hold my hands up about monks, I was wrong.
I didn't have a very good impression of monks from 5e rules, and the playstyle didn't particularly appeal to me either in game, but everyone said it was a very powerful class to play so I decided to try it and wow, mid to late game monks are insane, and for not much micromanagement either. In one turn I took a quarter of Raphael's health bar down. I get it, I was wrong, all hail monks and their tiny powerful fists.