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I don't know that I'd point at this specific instance of stat creep as breaking the setting given that stat creep has been going almost continuously since late 5th.

 alextroy wrote:

DaRealJDB wrote:Y'all can see the forest but for the trees. This is power creep, plain and simple.

Is it power creep when all the new codexes are being set a what appears to be a balanced higher defense level?

Pretty much. All the new Codexes are being set to a new higher defense level now, but once the next SM book 2 or 7e Craftworlds or 5e Grey Knights comes along and pushes beyond the line again they'll all be obsolete and GW will have to scramble to buff everyone else to keep up again. The Codex release model (where you have to update everything else before you can go back and fix the thing you broke) makes power creep pretty inevitable and unfixable.