It's the year of the monkey. Why were you expecting something different? Especially since we've always made animal year-themed items every year. If all we did was make chinese-themed items every year, we'd run out of ideas and it would only make it harder to do this. I don't understand your logic tbh.

Not to mention that there were a couple items that weren't monkey-themed (lantern, a version of the thug hat, and mandarin hat). btw.