Gunslingers can have legendary attacks since their weapons are unwieldy and need to be reloaded. Their damage is also somewhat low and they rely on their fatal trait for much of their damage so they need the additional crit chance to shine. They would probably be weaker than bows if it wasn't for the Gunslingers increased proficiency. Kinda makes you wonder how well they'll work for non-Gunslinger.
Giving Legendary unarmed proficiency to the monk, who can easily attack 4 times per turn (5 with haste) while also having agile d8 attacks with additional benefits would push them too far ahead.
A fighter with monk dedication using something like wolf stance with flurry of blows and Agile grace deals very high amounts of damage. You just don't see something like that often because the slow progress on unarmored proficiency turns the whole thing into a rather brittle glass cannon.
They have the second highest AC in the game (and can match the highest with mountain stance), best mobility, great stances, the best single target attack, good useage of maneuvers and some very awesome Ki Powers.
They are basically great at everything. They aren't the best damage dealers, but they are still pretty good at it.
Being capped at Master unarmored defense would (eventually) still gives them the same AC as most other martials. They REALLY shouldn't have legendary proficiency.
Also, you can probably pull something quite similar off with a fighter who gets Monk Dedication, if you really want to.
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everything he does, there's someone else who do it better
I don't think this is true. His mobility alone is unmatched.
Some more thoughts, mostly focused on things you can't easily get via Monk Multiclass:
- He the best (and only) super sayan in the game.
- Prevailing Position and Impossible Technique are a ridiculously good defensive abilities, especially ON TOP of some of the best defenses in the game. The same goes for Enlightned Presence and Diamond Soul.
- The good old combination of Stunning Fist, Tangled Forest stance, Stand still and a Bo (for reach and trip) is one of the best lockdowns in the game and covers a good area. Yes, you can get those things via multiclassing, but they come very late this way and since multiclass is capped at trained for the monk class DC, it wouldn't be nearly as effective.
- The Monk has pretty good area attacks for a martial. Whirling Blade Stance turns your Nunchaku into a chain lightning. Wild Wind Gust is basically the Barbarian's Whirlwind Strike with a much better to handle area (not to mention it costs only two actions).
If all you want to do is punch things, other classes can match him, yes. But focusing on that really misses a LOT of things the monk can do.
Whatever you want him to be, really. A monk can be a good tank, damage dealer or controler. He only sucks at healing and buffing. You can probably even do those with some archetypes (Medic, Marshal) if you want.
Just be sure to pick one or maybe two of those things and stick with them. You'll spread your feats too thin of you try to many things at once.
If I had to pick just one thing, I'd say his best role is probably control. Trip/Grapple plus stunning fist plus his high mobility can really mess with the enemies and soften them up for the rest of the party.