Geist:
Well my free time as valuable as it is, is still mine. As such mine to waste however I see fit.
As to your logic of they just want to sell books and have no interest in balance. Mate your just flat ass wrong. First off they made not 1 but 2 FAQ’s on alot of questions that really mattered. If there entire goal was just to sell the book, then they never would have made even the first FAQ. Gods below they make more than enough of there actual profit on the 40k side of forge world to even have to bother with the CD range. Secondly you wrong for a whole other reason. If they make the model rules more to the liking of the target audience then we that audience will be inclined to spend more money on said models.
You say it will have to be a massive PDF to correct the list. Nope, the entire thing could be fixed in less than 3 paragraphs. End to end whole book, but that is not the point here. The point is, typing up a few lines of errata and or FAQ cost them very lil, and the return is a customer who is happier to spend more money on their toys. That is a massive windfall in the business world. So there is no reason at all Forge World will not see our ideas and take the ones that are less broken or more in fitting with the current views, do a lil tweaking and rewrite them in a PDF errata/FAQ.
GW and ForgeWorld are in a rare business model where they can make serious amounts of cash on model sells just by the written word of the rules they attach to those models. It takes alot less effort and work to write out rules that they know we the gamer want to see than to actually brain storm a model create it and then figure out the 50 different looks for it. Words alone dictate the buying value of a model due to its rules, not the actual model. Sure some models look cool and will sell alot more than others, but those models with the rules that everyone likes. Those models will sell be the truck load only because their rules are better.