It's amazing how often people try to force a situation from a top down or side perspective without understanding how fans make things. Before all of the SJW stuff fans made all sorts of fun stuff for their favorite things. I was in a clue that ranked you by how well you did at X Wing and Tie Fighter. Fans told stories and made movies about Star Wars and even had meet ups for that. Troops comes to mind.

The reality is, with all of the fans making stuff, good stuff comes out. It's not all good, but we can still enjoy it. Good games, movies, stories and others come from that.

Half Life is awesome, the mods made it that much better.

Anything Games Workshop makes competes with fans. Since we can design figures and print them out on our own, they have to compete against us. If they can't, they won't have fans. If we don't need them, why continue buying their stuff?