Eh, in my book the choice between straight monk vs. archetype is kind of like the choice between a turd burger or a shit sandwich.
Monk is one of the best classes if you know what you're doing. There's a fighting style feat for them that allows them to counter attack before the opponent gets a hit in, and it's kinda broken...
Last nights session involved my Longtooth shifter barbarian, who was raging and had just took a swing of a giant strength potion, charging a door so hard that he busted a dwarf's arm because he planted his shield and forgot that the door could move, picking up said dwarf while he was prone, throwing him 60ft into the air as I roll a double crit (rage gives advantage to all strength checks) and threw him into another dwarf who was on a tower 45ft up, hitting said dwarf in tower and knocking them both off the tower and killing both.
He then continued his rampage as he sees two dwarves standing over his unconcious allies' body and one of them plants his shield in the ground, and I just move to an opening, picked up said dwarf and used him as a bludgeoning weapon against the dwarves' leader, who was a huge dwarf woman named Orta who was also a barbarian. The impact knocked her unconcious and because I was so strong, I caused his arm to be left behind with the shield he planted into the ground.
I got my buddy back up, and we healed the armless dwarf, who was still in shock he was missing an arm.
Because we knew Orta was strong and we didn't have any chains and only rope, we had to strip her of her belongings (knives, weapons, etc), hog tie her up to the point that my DM made a joke about her being ready for bondage sex, and the Druid starts to dig a hole using mould earth, which took a long time, but he then threw Orta into the hole but kept her head up and buried her up to her neck. and my buddy who tied her up decided that when we stripped her of her belongings, she was naked...
As you can see, this is starting to sound terrible. So she wakes up after we loot the place and, because she's a barbarian, she starts screaming like a madman while shouting curses like Yosammitisam (or however you spell his name (the redhead in loony tunes)). I then started to shout at her to shut up, but she didn't listen, and then the party rogue shows up and starts screaming, sounding like Orta, just to join in on the screaming match.
After about 20 minutes of shouting, she finally shuts up, and we try to question her. Sadly, we couldn't get any information out of her and she started making comments about skinning my character, so because we needed to move her, we proceeded to mic k her in the head over and over until she was unconcious, which took a long time as my DM said.
We moved her and buried her inside the building (dirt floor) and covered her mouth as we took a long rest, and then finally the dwarf wth one arm realizes he lost his arm (shock is over) and he starts crying, where the party Druid starts to pat his head and go "shhhhhh.... It's ok... It gets better..." And the way he said it made my DM drop everything, look at us and go "you're a party of psychopaths..."
After some chatter and house ruling, we decided greater restoration restores one limb at a time and he cast it using his magical gear to cause the dwarf to get his arm back.
In short: I threw a dwarf, beat another with another dwarf, buried a dwarf leader, tore a guy's arm off, and the party Druid, the fighter, and my barbarian are called psychopaths by our DM