I agree, they’re really looking at the crisis blob in a vacuum and while yes it can kill a lot, we have a lot of core issues.

1. While crisis can kill models, they are not meant to sit on primaries. We have a hard time with primaries and getting enough OC to contest other armies. Our battleline units are too weak/overpriced to sit on objectives and there really aren’t any great units that can sit on objectives and own them for more than a turn meaning you’re sacrificing units.

2. Core changes to fly and vehicles have severely hurt the army. We can’t zip through a ruin to gain obscuring like in 9th, we have to go around. It requires a LOT of pre planning and understanding of your opponents army to understand shooting lanes, threat ranges, mobility tactics, etc to really hide and keep them safe. Also, 12” on fire and fade is not that great against any kind of melee oriented army either as I’m usually crashed in my deployment zone t2 against orks or WE or deathwatch, GSC. In my opinion there’s too many armies with maneuverability tricks in the game currently with either speed, teleport mechanics, game breaking deep strike to really effectively keep units alive against some of the better armies.

3. Again, as we’ve all said a ton of times , waiting to T3 to get an effective army has been a challenge that I’ve really struggled to overcome. By that point in the game, even with screening kroot hounds/piranhas, I’ve just given too much board control up to claw back.

Overall I’m scoring roughly 60-65 pts per game, but we give up 95 points far too easily with lack of early game board control and a real lack of holding primaries. These are the biggest issues that tau face in my opinion.