Crawford says monk stuff ain't magic

[PhoenixPhyre]

That said, I still hold that the 'problem' is more with the language of AMF itself, internal to the spell description if you will. Not with a specific vs general between the spell description and the class features.

I agree. It's reasonably easy to misread this particular spell. That's why I emphasize the basic scope concepts--you can't read any sentence in a spell as an individual unit. The whole spell stands alone, individual sentences don't. That's a context mistake (commonly called proof-texting when it's done maliciously instead of mistakenly). The minimum safe context size for 5e in my experience is an ability (although sometimes you can get away with a single paragraph).