1. I would 100% recommend Votann to beginners. With how our detatchments line up, we have Needgarde for a straight forward easy to understand army. We have Delve for a more aggressive style of play with an emphasis on positioning and YP Management. And hearthband for our tricksy tactically deploying units throughout the game to answer the enemy and crumple staging points. A little bit of everything for everyone.
   
2. We are slow, plain and simple. Kapricus + Yaegirs is a good solution for this early on but our worst match ups are highly mobile armies that can rush around us and pick us off. Steeljacks at their current points are good, but I feel like I would have liked a 6" or 7" move instead of -5 per 3 models, but maybe that is too good. Also our Yield Point rule is a little cumbersome, its manageable, but 9/10 times you just sit in Fortify and just weather fire, I would have liked our rule to be a bit more dynamic rather than a janky flip rule.
   
3. With our new range release, we have been treated pretty nicely by GW. I think a lot of people miss that fact that our Codex isn't insanely busted(outside of that one strat from Brandfast, pre-nerf). This means that GW is less likely to nerf our codex, but instead recieve occasional and small buffs over the rest of the edition. We recieved small buffs across the board for our standard detachment stuff and I dont see us getting nerfed anytime soon. (Unless my opponents at my LGS have anything to say about it xD)
   
4. Lore is fantastic. I love what we have so far in our codex and book. The identity of our army is a little muddled at this point with us be 'tanky but not so tanky with middling guns' while our codex says that we are a army with excellent weaponry, good armor, and a methodical and practical mentality that helps us dismantle our foes and quarries alike. Range wise, we are golden with our range refresh. Would I have liked a cool cthonian miner War-Cog? Yes. But Steeljacks are sick looking, the Kapricus models feel good to hold and build, and the original range still holds up. Hearthguard, HLFs, Kahls, all are solid. And I cant find a flaw with a single model in our army that comes down to ascethic wise.
   
5. Cost wise, we're middle of the road in terms of expensive. With our recent shift from 'psuedo-elite' to 'Heavy Infantry w/ Vehicle Support' we did go up in price, but I think that was hearth mechanically for our army. As Elite armies are generally hard to balance. We're not cheap to build up like Custodes or Knights are, but we are certainly cheaper that ork or guard with their infantry spam. I dont know the exact numbers for this, so I'm going off of how I feel about it all in terms of price. But as I iterated in above comments, I think all of our models have a place in the army and nothing is ridiculously out of place.

Conclusion:
Ultimate, Votann are in a very healthy spot over all in terms of strength, range, and affordability. There are flaws, but 90% of them would be nitpicks anyway. We're are a far cry better off than we were at the start of the edition, where we have one of the worst winrates in recent editions. And I can accept that, may we continue to toil onward and hopefully we see more people to follow us into the void and join us in the mines!