>>72770792
I'll explain it to you, anon. Like how i've experienced it.
You start off, everything's wonderous.
Lore is new, you're learning it, everything seems badass.
You choose your army and you start off with the basics, you have fun painting, building, reading lore and scouring the rulebooks/codexes again and again to get that sweet fluff.
You get a larger force, and you look at your older stuff and it doesn't look as good as your new stuff so you maybe even re-buy some older models, and re-do them. Happy with the updated, flashy looks.
You start to get jaded at the passage of time, it only felt like yesterday you bought the x edition and x edition codex, and here you are buying the next one.
And then, of course, the eventual if you hang around long enough. ...New models. You worked hard on your range, but the new stuff just looks better, (primaris not included, in my case.) You just want to keep your guys, but the new stuff is taking the spotlight. You begrudingly buy some new minis, but now your army looks out of place.
There's a sinking feeling in your stomach, you don't want to replace your force, but you don't like the updated minis. So you hold off.
Time goes by, editions pass, and remakes and new minis pour out, you can't catch up, you can't ever keep pace, and before you know it you've got £1000's worth down the drain and your display cabinet/shelf/case is filled with minis you're not sure why you still have, as everything has changed.
Everything you bought which was once good lookswise and ruleswise has been replaced with either models which look better, or new models released with better rules, and GW fucking over the rules of your previous stuff just so they can force sales for people to buy the new stuff.
It's a rabbit hole, do you want to go down it?