Why can't Perfect Strike be used with any melee Monk Weapon?

[JAMRenaissance]

This is written in the errata:

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Perfect Strike: Can I use this feat with unarmed strikes?
As written, you can only use the feat with the specific weapons mentioned in the feat description.

So why does the feat have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite, if you can't actually use it with unarmed strikes? Because the feat is intended to be a cool thing that monks can do, and monks get IUS automatically (barring an archetype that replaces that feat), so having IUS as a prerequisite means it's easy for monks to learn Perfect Strike but more difficult for other classes. The prerequisite could have been "monk level X," but that would mean that only monks could take the feat (prohibiting even other martial arts classes or archetypes).

Note that the zen archer archetype allows you to use the feat with a bow, which means there's a precedent for creating an unarmed-combat archetype that modifies the feat for use with other weapons.

If it is meant to be a monk thing, why is the weapon list so small?

[Arachnofiend]

It's intended to make those few, incredibly s~#!ty Monk weapons that are on the list more valuable. Unfortunately it only pulls them up to the "pretty damn s!@*ty" rank.

[Protoman]

Monks can't have nice things.

[Daniel Turner Zen Archer]

Because the game balance people didn't want it to do so.

[Imbicatus]

Because it was written for the CRB monk, who only has those weapons instead of all monk weapons.

There is some potential for it with Ascetic Style, and the Zen Archer gets to use it with bows.

It's unfortunately a poor feat because it is forced to use poor weapons, although there could be some use for a sawshbuckler/monk using a siangham.