The Hell is concentrated on getting rid of all the initial bugs of Diablo 1, it raises challenge, gives much more variety (monsters, items, spells, boss monsters, unique items, item & environment colors), improves overall difficulty balance of the game, improves monster AI, introduces new character classes, increases replay value and gives full support for Multiplayer experience. It is fully functional, has many bugs of original game fixed, is running smooth, stable, and is much better than original game. The amount of changes is tremendous, part of them are available in Changelog file inside the game archive.
v1.131q made Monk proficient with all types of weapons, but still - fastest with staves and unarmed
What would it take to have you change the Monk's unarmed attack animation?
I think it looks nice. The whole thing is cool.
the original was supposed to have the speed of 8 frames, but they changed it to 7 frames in patch 1.1. which made it look choppy. I think it would be wise to fix that by the means of coding to retain 7 frame speed but make the animation look not cut (technically, cutting one frame not at the end, but in somewhere in the middle).
The impact of these small cosmetic improvements on gameplay is huge!, specially once you have as many as TH has... Keep it up!