On the note of the Tau, they even retconned them to be more in line with the rest of the factions.

OG Tau were the closest thing that 40k had to a "good guy", where while they had some issues, the Tau didnt really have anything screaming out that they were evil. And everyone hated that. They were already pushing it with the very clean, Gundam-esque looks, and now they have nothing evil? Where is the fun in that?!

So they got reworked to where they sterilize all non-Tau races that "join" them, their caste system is played up more to make some of them into inferiors, and they explicitly stated that the Ethereals are brainwashing everyone into compliance for their own political agendas (a la The Prophets from Halo). And that made the Tau actually more popular because they now fit better into the lore and the world.

How exactly are you going to subvert that?

GW's sins continue to be greed and incompetency with handling their product line. But compared to Woke subversion, these are preferable sins.

On the note of the Tau, they even retconned them to be more in line with the rest of the factions.

OG Tau were the closest thing that 40k had to a "good guy", where while they had some issues, the Tau didnt really have anything screaming out that they had an issue. And everyone hated that. They were already pushing it with the very clean, Gundam-esque looks, and now they have nothing evil? Where is the fun in that?!

So they got reworked to where they sterilize all non-Tau races that "join" them, their caste system is played up more to make some of them into inferiors, and they explicitly stated that the Ethereals are brainwashing everyone into compliance for their own political agendas (a la The Prophets from Halo). And that made the Tau actually more popular because they now fit better into the lore and the world.

How exactly are you going to subvert that?

GW's sins continue to be greed and incompetency with handling their product line. But compared to Woke subversion, these are preferable sins.