>>96579047
The worst thing for 40k was GW going public. If they didn't have the faggot endless profit increase motive they might have still remained a hobbyist-centric company and writers. Both the marvelization and MTGization are caused by the company chasing profit growth

Most people into warhammer unironically do not know how to build and paint the one on the left, they'd need GW to feed them an official kit and competitive ruleset for it to even give it a chance
Remember, the trend of pie plate objectives isn't due to people preferring them aesthetically or mechanically, it's because nu-hobbyists are lazy fucks who will whine and throw a fit if there is any rule that requires talking to the other players, and if they can't plug and play the game and have it completed within a hour or two the game is considered fundamentally shit. GW has bred a community of lazy motherfuckers who treat the hobby like a video game they buy and download with no effort or care required. The truth is that majority of warhammer players would not paint their models if they didn't feel like they had to, they would not even build models if GW sanctioned using tokens instead of miniatures. Speed is king to the nu-crowd. ADHD """hobbyists""" are a plague