To preface this sorry if this is a bit long-winded I just feel so odd when I read people's comments and wanted to hear what people thought about this. Your response is appreciated please articulate why and what you think.

When I first heard of 40k it was when the tau rewrite was going on and it was so jarring seeing people actively complain about a faction being morally good for the sake of not showing up the primary faction. Ever since then I have had a hard time getting invested in characters or factions in the setting because CA had demonstrated that they are more than willing to fold to pressure so why get invested in something that isn't demonstrably popular.

I've always been in the kind of person who enjoys watching heroic characters face crushing brutal and ultimately unwinnable odds all the while maintaining their principles. Thats why i was initially enamored with the T'au, despite being the weakest faction in the setting they represented a faint spark of hope in a baleful galaxy. A multicultural egalitarian society that relied on ingenuity and cooperation to overcome impossible odds and the best part about it was that they stood no chance of winning in the grand scheme of the universe. That was the joke: the bright-eyed newcomer with good intentions was destined to be chewed up and spit out by unending hostility hearing people claim that they clashed with the setting from a narrative point of view always struck me as odd.

Even though they've been rewritten to be infinitely more boring they still retain the insignificance they've always had as the newcomers. Xenos, in general, can never seem to get a decent win Not Eldar, not Tau, the Necrons are seldom the focus of large-scale events in the fiction despite being its strongest faction. The Orks are locked into being comedic relief which I must admit they *are* good at, a good Ork story never fails to bring a smile to my face at the very least but those stories are not exactly meant to be substantive.

It's very difficult for me to get through a book with my suspension of disbelief in tact because the factions don't act remotely believable.

The Eldar are both intelligent as well as elegant, they have a storied history to draw upon and should know that if there is to be hope for the future then there must be change. If they are to survive and return to prominence they would renounce their aloof and pompous attitudes. Humans always demand and strive for better when it comes to our quality of life, there is no way a repressive regime like the imperium wouldn't have spliter groups and secessionist movements challenging it's authority. Et cetera Et cetera Et cetera. As it stands it is incredibly hard to take the 401st millennium seriously when the closest thing to an inspiring story is about killer robots coming to terms with their dysphoria and realizing that communities are built on respect first in foremost rather than nebulous authority.

I dont want the universe to lose it's bite but if more characters and factions were aloud to be the least bit redeemable and not act in a completely asinine way for the sake of the plot I would be a lot more willing to engage with the narrative. By, all means keep these people in the minority so that they are still severely outnumbered so as to maintain the hopeless atmosphere but for the fucks sake don't give them a million and one atrocities in their closet to balance out their outward appearance it's just so boring and uninspired in my opinion to have every would-be paragon also be a monster for the sake of being grim and dark.