From a real world perspective the meteor hammer and 9 section whip should be weapon finesse weapons. If you try to use strength with those instead of dexterity/training you'll just end up damaging yourself. Of course, real world doesn't always translate to gaming rules well, but it doesn't seem too powerful to make those finesse-able weapons. Giving the appropriate monk weapons the ability to be used with weapon finesse would make a nice option for dex based and str based monks, dependent on the type of weapons you want to use. It'd be a cool option.
And I'd certainly think that any weapon with the monk designation should be one monks have proficiency with. And it seems obvious that the meteor hammer is a monk weapon, so I'm curious why it doesn't get the monk designation. But again, just because it's real world obvious, doesn't mean it translates to the rules, I'd just like to hear why it doesn't translate.
And it sure would be nice to hear from an official source on these questions.
