Monitor mixing is a different craft from front of house with a different goal, and stage volume decides whether front of house is possible at all. Both are as much about people as about equipment.
Front of house serves an audience that wants to hear a balanced show. Monitors serve performers who need to hear specific things in order to play well. Those are different jobs with different criteria, and treating monitors as a quieter version of the main mix is the standard way to get both wrong.
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