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Basically the same question but 12 pages of answers here:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/550170.page

Seems like most were leaning towards "Eh, not the best on purely rules".

Personally I dislike the boredom brought on by my opponent playing their whole turn for 40 minutes straight while I daydream about an interactive game, only being roused to roll a save or two. I really hate having to roll a zillion dice a zillion times just to figure out if a shooting attack was successful. I dislike how the core statline is still so heavily melee/WHFB influenced. I dislike the random, out of a hat point values. I dislike having even the simplest interactions be tedious and generally come grinding to a halt when Rule X from Codex Y overwrites Rule A from Codex Z. And so on and so forth.

xruslanx wrote:
Nor do I feel the need to track down a rulebook, memorise a new set of rules, buy some new models, paint them up, then persuade a friend to do all that, then get the free time nessesary to play a new game...

Haha you don't realize how much 40k has skewed your view on what is required to play a wargame. Memorizing rules like it's a chore, instead of 2 pages of light reading. Having to buy models instead of using your existing collection, or paper stand-ups, or tokens/counters, etc. Trying a new game is really not the mammoth effort you make it out to be. It's also extremely rewarding and fun.
Do you also stubbornly not try anything else new? "Ugh why would I need anything but channel 2 on TV?" "Pssh why would I watch the new Lone Ranger, I just like to stick to Office Space" "New restaurant? Nah I'll eat soup at the same place I've been going for 20 years." "Video games? Don't get me started, I still enjoy Warcraft 1 and won't even TRY to learn something new!"

xruslanx wrote:
Two pages of light reading? I'm sorry but I have no desire whatsoever to try such a eunuch of a game. If that's what "tight" rules mean to you, you can keep them.

And again you show your lack of experience with other systems. You literally have NO IDEA how a 2-page ruleset would play. That is staggering to me.

xruslanx wrote:
Nearly all of the latter are a result of the sheer complexity of 40k; each new special rule will, by nessesity, interact with dozens of special rules (and the rules that they themselves interact with). Such complexity is bound to create bugs, how could it not?

Well you certainly wouldn't know the answer since all you've played is 40k.