Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

We really aren't. (lolRaekor's aside. And even that is dependant on pylon fishing.)

The main problem the removal of the bracers caused is we have to choose between damage or survivability. On top of weak single target damage and survivability in general compared to every other class. (We JUST got a cheat death passive in 2.2 while everyone else has had them.)

Not to mention both IK6 and WotW were finetuned with Mortick's in mind. So with that gone but no changes made to the set bonuses after the fact..... we're still stuck with Raekor's if we want to push Greater Rifts. And Raekor's is BORING.

Uh, prior to 2.2 monk's cheat death was garbage and barely worth mentioning. Just saying.
You weren't alone in not having a function cheat death prior to 2.0