I think warcry is going the way of kill team also. It will be a way for them to introduce niche elite units and redisgn existing ones without a full faction refresh. I purchased the gorger/wildercorps box as I have use in a current army and a future cities project, but going forward will be a lot more cautious on purchasing specialist games as they have the highest likelyness of being squatted.
It's sad I have nearly all the warcry warbands except corvus cabal. With the darkoath box was planning a massive mortal/cultist army but suppose that will purely be a building a painting project now.
I use to buy underworlds till a year or two ago when the price increase became to much to justify for the models. If they have a cool stand in model for an existing unit like the new necromancer then I consider it. But I think this is the most indanger specialist game for aos. They always seemed like they were testing out new sculpts for the future, but £26 for for four push fit models with bad rules normally is a bit much.
Fyreslayers were my first main army after I bought soul wars, the only unit I am missing is the warcry warband and the new hero that was in dawnbringers. As I don't feel they do to much for the Army, I think eventually we'll get a fec equivelant update another unit like a squad of kynefroths and some cavalry then I would purschase them.
Funnily enough my second army was ogor mawtribes this has the opposite problem in my eyes, heros and synergy because the beastclaw raiders and gluttons were seperate they don't gel to well in lists, I haven't played much of third once when it first came out so can't say to much of the current meta. But I think they need an ironjawz treatments and get a couple cool sub heros. I think the fact bonesplittez are gone leaves the destruction faction a bit bare and as they are not a core old world force I don't think they'll be squatted any time soon. If anything I hope they go more down the pirate/mercenary route with their designs.
I think the purge of 2024 has a lot of people shook, rightly so. Some will leave the hobby others will find an alternate game mode/army.
GW will bury their heads and hope 4 edition starter will make everyone forget I am personally not the biggest fan of the new thunderstrike liberators the shown helm is a bit meh.
I think the bloat was real the only reason spacemarines were kept for so long before legened was because they made a lot more money than sacrosanct. I love sacrosanct, I have a sons of mallus army I doubt I'll buy into thunderstrike but we'll see how tasty the starter is.