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The only factions I can see being lumped together are:

Armies of the Imperium: This title has been used recently, and is the catch-all umbrella for the 31 flavours of Space marine, 3 factions of Inquisition, The Ineptus Mechanicus, Astral Millipede, Millipede Tempura, The Eccelesiarchy and so on. It allows for semi-generic units such as Arbites to make a come-back as units unaligned to a specific faction, but part of the larger whole. It's as if you had an army of Guard, but want some decent C&C smack down with your favourite Not-Dredd policemen.

Xenos: Aeldari: Vanilla (Craft), Chocolate (Dark) and Rainbow-Sprinkles-with-sherbert flavours of Eldar. Allows introduction of Caramel (Exodites) with a few units here and there. Maybe even Corsairs (Rum + Raisin) too, as a conversion kit between the three races. Pop a corsair conversion kit into a guardian/kabalite/harlie box and you're laughing.

Xenos: This area I can see being an "Individual Battletome" area or mini-compilations ala Disciples of Tzeentch. So, Tau Empire + Auxillaries leaves room open for kroot, vespids, demiurg, Gue'la and so on. Orks get their Clans! Maybe even a 8th Clan in rebel grots. Necrons...well, Dynasties? I guess they'd have more formations than anything to represent the uniformity of their appearance but differing lords and such. Tyranids gain GSC, with options to run pure GSC, pure nid, One of the big Hive fleets, etc.

Excommunicate Traitoris: Chaos, in all its flavours. Probably best split up the way AoS is handling Chaos- splitting the big 4 up into mini-compilations and then the cover-all which includes Undivided. Legions and Daemons and Cults, oh my! Could introduce renegades as a new subfaction to allow some cross-pollination of regular marine kits into the chaos armoury. MkVII chaos? hell yeah. Knee pads with faces on them! Spikes growing out of spikes! Plastic Huron! Make Undecided Great Again!

This all being said, I have no idea how 40k 8th is going to pan out. I just want smaller sized armies so I can get back in without having to paint in excess of 80 dudes plus vehicles