This topic has probably come up before but I wanted to put in my 2cents.
Some of the plastic sprues have a crazy amount of parts. Wyrd models have always been a little thinner than PP and GW models and the need to remove large amount of parts from a sprue and clean up the connections greatly increases the chance of damage to one or more of the parts.
The plastic Vanessa model comes in 8 parts! three, maybe four I could see but 8 separate parts seems silly. new Hoffman avatar, 18 or so parts, it just doesn't seem necessary.
Is this a new industry norm?