Wait wait wait wait wait....
1) What talk of there being a 1-step Prowl? I have never heard that.
2) All kinds of IDW MTMTE guys are anticipated considering the crew does have a lot of movie era and beyond characters on board, so I would expect lots of new LL crew members.
3) I think talking about lack of bad guys toys is ridiculous. In all honesty, we have probably gotten more bad guy molds than good guy molds, it's just that several good guys keep getting repainted, and now that we are past all of the main autobots being released, we are getting lots of bad guys, in all sizes. Besides, would you rather we be getting combining Bee's and Bee repaints? This is his show and line.
4) We have asked for rescue bot generations figures that is true, but the thing is: we already moan enough over the lack of other characters being made from the original 80's stuff and over how badly apparently figures are done, so I can't say I blame them for not making generations rescue bots.
5) I for one do not want to go back to the 80's style transformers. I liked the direction Thrilling 30 and Combiner wars was taking by using updated designs. I do not want figures to look like their original toys, I want them updated. And other things such as RiD enable us to step away from those classic designs with good reasons, and there have been some very good figures and designs that I like much better that are non-G1 based. AoE Prime was a great looking character, even if toys could not pull it off. Same with Prime Smokescreen: fabulous design, and I loved what they did with the wings. Armada and beast wars had a fair share of great designs as well, not to mention animated Prowl. Not everything should fall back on G1.