I will never get over the barfathon that led to "conjunx endura".
IDW did have some good ideas, but conjunx endura wasn't one of them. Empurata was a good use of the worldbuilding constraint that a major character like Shockwave lacked the humanlike head of most transformers, and the defunct Functionist caste system felt like a proper sci-fi concept and not just a one-for-one substitution for human racism, but conjunx endura was just "(platonic) romance, with giant robots."
IDW did have some good ideas, but conjunx endura wasn't one of them. Empurata was a good use of the worldbuilding constraint that a major character like Shockwave lacked the humanlike head of most transformers, and the defunct Functionist caste system felt like a proper sci-fi concept and not just a one-for-one substitution for human racism, but conjunx endura was just "(platonic) romance, with giant robots."