I bet it is also country dependant. In countries like mine, where the economy is not the shiniest, people tend to buy as cheaply as possible and prioritise discounts over that kind of stuff.
Only if you are really into the hobby you will buy from 3rd party stores. If you know nothing and you see the brand selling their product on their web, you will buy there.
Yeah. We are creating all the drama and nowadays via programming you can make anything. It is pretty easy to track interaction. Splitting a product purely because of the sales tracking is just dumb.
In the end, if your matt/ table is bigger it is just a matter of delimiting the board (in fact I always preferred to have some extra space). The problem would be if they go bigger.
If the Cogfort rumour is true, and not a mock in the end, this could open AoS to another dimension in terms of miniature sizes. With Cogforts we could go as big as the biggest 40k Titan. Do you see GW going wild and having bigger pieces like this kind of Worms?