I used to paint 40k figures when I was a kid and played it a little bit, it's too bad how expensive it is tho and it seems to only have gotten more expensive with time.
I was lucky to have parents and especially grand parents on my dads side who were willing to buy it for me, I guess they just liked that it was something different than video games lol.
But my grand mother in particular is like the kindest person on the planet and would just buy whatever 40k figures I wanted ( helps they're fairly well off too ).

I am a bit sad that Fantasy was basically dropped because I rly have no interest in Age of Sigmar but as an adult I kinda wanted to get into the Fantasy figures especially after I started playing Total War Warhammer which I have probably well over 2k hours in.