You are right, I really dislike the design of civs dependant on their heroes.
Anything stronger than the European borderline useless heroes (except as meatshiels) I find not really good design.
Basically all non vanilla civs disgust me 
I would prefer they scalped down these heroes power and made the civ playable without depending in these
I dislike the design, too. One free hero unit affects a lot in a battle doesnāt feel like AoE to me.
So I still hope it will be changed somewhere in my mind. I would rather prefer soldiers to be buffed than keeping the monk strong as it is.
You guys suggested me using cavs to deal with the monk, so I will try it, thx. Though I still think that I will be forced to micro harder than Chinese users because they always come with some pikes and even a cav has to attack the monk many times to take him down because the hitpoint is over 1000.
I appreciate the advice but I doubt making spies to counter the monk will be an option. Unlike the monk spies donāt have 1000HP, so they will be shot to death easily as soon as they appear in the enemy sight. Only if they could sneak up on the monkā¦
spies deal 200 damage to hero units , so you only need like 2 for it to be worth it. Also try to mix in the spies with cav as tanks, threaten skirms and basically make microing the spies harder
Thank you Iāll try that.