Are you saying that heretics and chapterhouse are bad and not worth reading or are you suggesting that the later books that Frank did not write are good?
The other 2 Frank books are well worth reading. I would avoid any of the stuff that he didn't write though. Just wiki any questions you might have after reading those.
I have no idea what Miami is doing with it's line. I mean you have to make the Tunsil trade, but holy shit it's been mostly a mess for decades. They just can't put together a full group. you have years with 1 or 2 good players but it's never complete. Shameful.
also people don't bother selling 50 plat things very often when there's tons of multi krono items always being bought and sold. Bazaar will help with this in a few weeks though.
There's a number of ways to make the trash less painful, several of which are mentioned in this thread but instead of taking the information and using it, take jabs at people instead.
LDoN raid stuff is relevant longer than most stuff from later expansions even. The problem is that the raids are mostly just shitty trash slogs. Some of the raid bosses have some kind of interesting things going on, but for the most part it's clear 20 minutes of trash, then kill some bullshit...