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Some of it's good, a lot of it is bad. They gave units different movement values like in Second Edition, as well as armor saves being reduced (rather than binary). They removed armor facings, templates, and units falling back when morale is broken.

I could tolerate the above changes. What I don't like are stratagems and apocalypse units, special characters, and flyers being allowed in normal games. You can have titans, primarchs, and aircraft in 2,000 point games. Stratagems are special abilities that use command points, generated at the start of the turn. Rather than a unit always having access to an ability (like Exarch powers), units have access to multiple special abilities based on how many command points you have. This leads to combo chains and "gotcha!" mechanics, making it feel more like a card game and defeating the purpose of tabletop wargames (i.e. WYSIWYG).

The Space Marine army list is a cluster fuck of new Primaris Marines and their vehicles mixed with first born. They didn't simply upscale SM like they did with Chaos. Instead, they tried to get people to essentially buy a second SM army while moving classic units (like Razorbacks and Dreadnoughts) to "legacy" status. They haven't done this to other armies, but it's been alarming to see GW willing to do it to their most popular model line.

Errata is more frequent, as well. I wasn't kidding about week 1 errata. When the Leagues of Votann (squats!) were released, they were stupidly overpowered. What happened was they playtested mainly against Tyranids right before Tyranids got serious nerfs, then released the book after the changes were made. One of the playtesters caused a fiasco when he said he didn't understand the complaints because he played eight games. Not in a week. Not in a month. Eight games total.

So out comes a codex playtested eight games against a different overpowered army that no longer existed. They made it something like five days before issuing point changes, stat nerfs, etc. which meant anyone who bought the codex and summary cards on the first day of release didn't have the right rules. This isn't the first or last time this has happened.

If you've played any time between 3rd. and 4th., you're probably familiar with changes not occurring for years. While there was a lot to be desired, rules were more rigorously playtested. I remember when the Chapter Approved rules for Inquisitors and their retinues was published in White Dwarf. They were early experiments for what eventually became Codex: Demonhunters quite a bit later. That doesn't happen today because they update rules for the sake of getting people to buy unsold product.

It's an example of fiduciary responsibility and making line go up at all costs creeping its way in. But you point out how capitalism destroys everything it touches and game*s come to GW's rescue. "Just my poor, smol bean international multi-billion dollar company holding up the entire British economy! They need to enshittificate everything to keep the lights on!"