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tl;dr – just make them combi-weapons, and retain some of the "gamble" factor by allowing obliterators to spread out attacks that would be sub-optimal against a single unit, and letting mutilators get an extra attack for using different profiles rather than sticking with the best.

In terms of balance, Mutilators are basically unchanged except they trade the peaks and valleys of a Possessed unit for a more stable selection of options, with a +1A if you go back to peaks and valleys.

Obliterators actually do less damage on average than their original incarnation, but are much cheaper than their new version. Compared to the new Havocs, they match up reasonably well; for roughly the price of two Havocs with missile launchers, you get a single model with an extra total wound, no loss of firepower as it suffers wounds, beefier melee attacks, and a 2+/5+ save. The downside being that the Obliterator has about three-quarters the total firepower, those extra wounds won't help against multiwound weapons, and it's very slow.

Overly complicated with the multi-selection weapons mate.

Try playing with a lot of d6/d3 weapns...

Like you mean you have a weapon with solid number of shots and base stat that can only get better and that's not enough?

Just return them to the old rules. Pick a gun from the list that has most SM heavy and special weapons. The new models clearly have distinct versions of various weapons. Given them crappy random generic weapons is so bland.

Why? They're fine as they are, barring any points changes.

Most fun unit I've put on the table this edition since the most recent change.