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I don't get this. I always took the counterbalance of the extra versatility of the monk, ranger, paladin, and, to a lesser extent, the bard, were having 3 primary ability scores instead of 2. There's zero need to nerf them further.
I can only assume that WotC heard complaints about that one time that an enemy rolled a bunch of 1s to Save against Stunning Strike and "ruined the campaign" by DMs who don't know jack about encounter design and didn't notice Stunning Strike doing squat the rest of the time. There's a weirdly vocal group of people who think Monk is OP.
That one of the problems with the design of the Monk class, though. all other possible class features could be argued to be less worthwhile than just using Stunning Strike on every attack each round until it hits, which in my opinion as a Monk player and DM is incredibly boring.