I know the Games Workshop are trying to make money from their intellectual property but there are only so many ideas they can use. They keep adding extra rules with each new release and when they do this they dilute the individuality of the rule donating army.
Case in point, the Ynnari index was featured in the pages of White Dwarf back in May, at the time they took a very powerful army and nerfed it into a playable army, with a few bells and whistles. However, it would appear that nothing is sacred in the world of 40K and the Army attribute that Ynnari were given has now been given to the Space Marines.
Part of the reason that an individual picks an army is the uniqueness of that army and how it differs from other armies. If all the armies have all the same lines then they lose a great deal of their uniqueness. At this point, the game of Warhammer 40,000 becomes little more than chess with very expensive pieces.
Yes, the rules are more complicated, and yes the board is a little bigger. But ultimately all the armies have all the same rules is going to get stale very quickly. One of the promises that games workshop made when they released the eighth edition of 40 K was that they would reduce the rules to make the game simple to play. It's now pretty obvious that they've either forgotten this promise or they are choosing to ignore it. We now have the Army codices (plus Marine Supplements), twice a year FAQs/Errata, annual Chapter Approved, Vigilus expansion books, City's of Death, Urban Conquest, and that's just the extras that I can reel off the top of my head.
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