So it's kind of old news now, but there were some differing opinions when WOTC announced the Monk playtest, and made it a psionic class. It doesn't bother me, though. Actually, I was thinking of assigning the monk to all the official power sources in order. Let's go:
Martial Monk - Easy. The 4E Monk already looks half martial, enhancing his martial skills with latent psionic powers.
Divine Monk - The word "Monk" certainly brings the divine power source to mind. The divine Monk is a warrior empowered by her god, much like the Avenger (PHB2).
Arcane Monk - Now it gets trickier. Still, a guy with no armor, no weapons and a decent special effects budget could certainly be magical. Hadoken!
Primal Monk - Okay, this is pretty far off. Still, the Barbarian's rages channel the aspects of certain animals to give him those aspects. The Monk could do the same and be a decent unarmored fighter (but far from the "ascetic on a mountain").
Psionic Monk - Official. As I said, I don't mind the idea. I figure it's very weak psionics, only enough to enhance personal training and sometimes flip out with some kind of blast.
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I think the important thing, going forward, will be to separate wizardry and psionics in your mind.
Previously, psionics was really just arcane magic manifested mentally without the manipulation of external - magical - forces. Magic with a different skin.
Henceforth, the psionic power source is a here-to-fore untapped part of the humanoid brain.
That realized potential is going to manifest itself in any number of ways from telepathy and psychoportation to self-perfection and super-humanity.
Well, I haven't had much trouble separating psionics and arcane before. Different systems and all (arcane and divine were much more similar).
Psionics haven't really been grounded in the core setting, though, and 4E tries to change that.
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