Still up.
Is the fandom finally ~tired of Primaris?~ Or did they just make a shitload of the SM ones?
The Primaris Marines would have worked better if Guilliman really was out to piss off the retrograde aspects of the Imperium so he can have an excuse to kill them all. Like say, it goes like this:
Roboute Guilliman: Here, we have the new Primaris Marines which will serve as the vanguard for the next generation!
Ecclesiarchy/traditionalist Space Marine Chapters/more narrow-minded Techpriests and Lords of Terra: HEY! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! IT GOES AGAINST TRADITION! GUILLIMAN IS A TRAITOR, IT'S CIVIL WAR TIME!
*Primaris Marines crush the rebels with their upgraded geneseeds, weapons, and armor, along with support from loyalist Space Marine Chapters, the Navis Imperialis, and the Astra Militarum.*
Roboute Guilliman: YAY! Now I have a more unified Imperium with no bullshit politics or superstitions to get in my way! Dad's dream of a progressive empire protecting humanity will now flourish!
That would not only be in-keeping with the lore, but it would totally be in Guilliman's character to annihilate the more backwards-thinking aspects of the Imperium so he can run it the way his father would. Then he'd finalize his deal with Yvraine's group of Eldar so he can figure out how to have Imperium ships use Eldar Webway technology, and his Imperium would be set. No bullshit politics, no superstition, and his dad would no longer have to serve as a glorified FTL beacon.
Instead, the Primaris, despite breaking almost everything about how Space Marine chapters work, are accepted by most SM chapters, and the Imperium barely even flinches at the fact that Guilliman and Cawl tampered with their god's work in order to make soldiers from Mars that would mostly be loyal only to the people who made them, instead of to the specific SM chapters that they're assigned to. None of the more retrograde aspects of the Imperium throws a hissy fit, and everything works just as fine.
Yeah, it seems as if GW just wiped their asses with their own lore. For the billionth time.
Forget lore rape, it's practically lore sodomy at this point.