What if Four Element was an option for all subclasses of monk?

[LudicSavant]

It is often argued that four elements is the weakest monk subclass, so in theory, replacing other subclasses' features with an elemental one should be a downgrade, right?

That would only be true if the subclass features were of uniform quality throughout their progression, and that's very much not the case for some subclasses. I would happily trade Open Palm's level 11 feature for practically anything.

Then again, nothing would go amiss if Open Palm got some modest buffs anyways. So... shrug.