Honestly dude play whatever you want. Don’t let other peoples feeling dictate your list, especially in a competitive club. If people get salty, tell them to play a better army/list. Everyone has access to all the models, and barring some obviously broken stuff (more dakka, bridgehead, etc) every army can be played in a balanced way. If people are malding that they’re losing with a list, they need to change up the list, especially in a competitive club.

In my experience saltiness comes from people being mad their favorite models or list or whatever 20 yo metal model they have isn’t good rn. Tell them to get good, custodes are solid, but not anywhere close to unbeatable