My wife is very much an AFOL. I buy her a couple of the expensive creator/expert sets each year. We also have several bins of generic legos of all shapes & si

My wife is very much an AFOL. I buy her a couple of the expensive creator/expert sets each year. We also have several bins of generic legos of all shapes & sizes for the kids. They occasionally get technic sets, too, as gifts. These are not at odds with each other, Lego is successfully marketing to two demographics that are complimentary to one another. It's a good strategy. What's not a good strategy is their really lackluster pace of creating new sets, or the speed with with they take old ones out of production so they become a thousand bucks on the secondary market.