I think this is another area where the current brand team (whoever's in charge of assortments at least) shines. Since WFC they've been folding tailenders into the next line to some extent, which is helpful for them (one less thing to design and produce to populate the line/wave) and for people who couldn't get a certain figure.
Also somewhat unprecedentedly, they started bringing back molds that had been used for exclusives and outright 1:1 reuses of molds and decos that were exclusive. This hasn't been to my benefit specifically (although I may get a non-yellowing Ramjet, he's been out long enough that there may be a decent consensus on that?) but I imagine so many others are happy to get a Cosmos, a Galaxy Shuttle, and so on.
(I actually haven't run into many people bitching about how this makes their toys less rare, which is refreshing. Although there has been at least one dipshit bitterly commenting on the Cosmos package refresh, saying Hasbro (not the secondary market, huh) charged out the nose for the first one only to turn around and release it again. Idk if that's just spillover from a fandom of something that DOES do dumb stuff like that, or just not understanding how the secondary market works, but you might want to borrow the brain cell back from the cat for a minute.)
I hope this practice continues and that they have decent feedback for which to do this with.
