We could ask "whose fault is it that they got a lot bigger, more elaborate, and crazier to paint?" At least with that last section the unpainted sets should be a lot cheaper than the painted sets if we are to assume the difference in cost is all associated with painting the pieces to begin...

What is in the second MWOD image and where does it come from?
To put it another way besides to torch wall, ruin, and balcony what is the 4th wall and how do we get that because I can't find it anywhere except on the Count's Keep.

While I doubt we'll get them I've suggested having an 8 pack of rampart crenellations. Aside from needing the two other corners going from Ramparts to Castle is 8 more of those double sided crenellations. Going from Castle to Citadel is 16 more although I'm thinking that a lot of people who would be...

Three Batter Bases would allow you to surround your corner towers with them. You only need three for the four corners because one quarter of each corner is the castle.

That second one is certainly interesting and gives a lot of "kill zones" between the first and second gates. As long as the second area isn't the first to be breached, which is how I would approach that in Medieval II, it even seems like you have much of the civilian population protected. ...

The GC stretch goals already don't exactly match up with the cathedral. Just exchange the accessory slot crenelations on in the GC stretch goals for indent crenellations and you solve that problem while also eliminating the need for a special GC crenellation package. I'd like to see a corner spacer ...

... The solution would be to include 2 sets of indent crenelations in the Grand Citadel pledge. Since almost everyone who gets a grand citadel wants some sort of crenelations there won't be wasted pieces and this would make it very easy to add KS3 crenelations or KS4 battlements to a Grand Citadel ...

I might say I'd like to see a sci-fi/space based them but I doubt that is a popular idea here. It doesn't help that it wouldn't integrate as well with all of those previous KS packages either although there are places where steel and stone can work together.

Dream pledge? Everything fully painted and in duplicate!
Dream pledges really runs into issues with budget.

I've long championed being able to put a pair of long walls back to back with a spacer between them to create a double wall. I plan on using them as a means to go from a small castle out to a tower a "safe" distance away.