Because your actions as a FC are not indicative of your KB but rather of the killboard of the fleet and those who can offer personal testimony to your skills as a FC. If you are worried about your killboard, fly another ship. The monitor was supposed to be a sacrifice to offensive capabilities to allow FCs to have strong defensive capabilities; however, it created a new role within a fleet…observation through FCing. Previously to be a FC was not a static role within the fleet comp. It was just something a person did regardless of ship types. To offer this ship up just to allow a minority of FCs to feel like they can avoid getting headshot off the field fast is crazy.
I would sum up the Monitor as a gimick ship at best but at the end of the day despite my opposition for it I would be ok with it provided it did not allow for TPing themselves onto kill mails. If you are going to add a ship with no offensive capabilities to allow a FC to do ONLY FCing, then all efforts to add said individual onto a kill mail should be removed from that ship. If the FC wants on a kill mail they know how to fly another ship. I suspect the headhunting complaints you are hearing from the FCs getting shot off the field fast are because they aren’t having time to really get on a lot of kill mails and not because the fleet is left without a viable FC pretty fast in the engagement and honestly if that is the whole reason for adding this ship in as a choice than CCP really are scraping the bottom of the barrel and should seriously re-evaluate how badly they are adding crap to the game.