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One suggestion: make a slight alteration to the way you play games. One thing that worked very well for me a little while ago was not to find a good gaming group, but find just one good gamer you enjoy playing with. And then dive into narrative gaming (did this with Age of Sigmar: https://ttgamingdiary.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/the-realmgate-wars-a-retrospective/).

With narrative gaming you dispense with the 'killer army build' attitude because instantly it does not really matter who wins. It is the 'story' that is important and you are really just looking for 'cool things happening on the table'. You will have the perfect excuse to bring out all those units that are not performing so well competitively because how they perform is of secondary importance in narrative.

It kinda goes back to the way I was playing these games when I was a kid (YMMV on that, obviously). However, it does open the gate wide to the really cool things about these games, which is the background and pretty models.