they're not my top choice when looking for villagers but I do quite like some of them - used to quite like Champ in WW and I like Nana and Deli, plus the non-villager monkeys from the games - Porter and Niko - are pretty cool
The only monkey I even remotely like is Nana. I am not a fan of any of the monkey villagers unfortunately. Champ looks cute but he was only in the earlier games.. he'd be the top choice for me if I were to choose the best monkey villager. Idk why they decided to never bring him back? Maybe he looked too similar to Porter, who, is also another adorable monkey albeit not a villager.
I'm not a big fan of monkeys and gorillas, but my favorite villager IS a gorilla: it is Rocket. For monkeys, my favorite is the new one: Tiansheng because he really has the nice Sun Wukong vibe. Shari is cute as well! But I don't like the design of the other monkeys. I don't know if it's the specie in general or the individual villagers, but no, they're not my favorite. But Tiansheng really nice!
I really do not like monkeys in real life, but I cannot bring myself to hate on the monkey villagers in Animal Crossing. I can even concede that some of them are kind of cute, too, like Champ or Flip. I wouldn't go out of my way to invite in to my town, but I can say that about a lot of other villagers, even some of that I rather like, simply because my town is already full of my favorites. Gorillas, on the other hand... I do not really like any of the gorilla villagers except for Hans (because he looks like a yeti and I find that interesting).