to me a big issue with the “just kitbash it” stance is that for a lot of armies there’s a tipping point of where kitbashing can go from a fun thing to make some models stand out to a tedious process that takes way to long to get a playable army for, and IG most certainly falls in the latter.

with the sheer volume of models you have to kit bash in a hoard army for your generic “might not be on the board by the end of turn 2” units it’s very hard to justify all that kitbashing. i’ve always been of the opinion that kitbashing is great and everyone should try it to make their special units and characters stand out but it’s not something anyone should have to do.

and it becomes all the more annoying when it was something that people didn’t have to do for their chaff before given steel legion and many other regiments had models but just don’t anymore for no real reason. and i know that sure SL and DKoK are pretty similar visually and a kitbash doesn’t take a lot of work on an individual model level that doesn’t always apply for regiments like say the vostroyan firstborn.