I apparently had a lot to say on this topic!
The Gamification of Fountain Pen Collecting https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/the-gamification-of-fountain-pen-collecting/
Timelordiroh 
@jezlyn very well written and very true. I find the constant stream of "Limited Editions" very tiring. i'm still relatively quite new into fountain pens (got my first one in 2023). I think this is ultimately part of the end-stage capitalism world we live in. If a company does as well this year that they did last year, they're considered a failure. That's driving a lot of the same sales tactics and push for overconsumption in many industries.
@jezlyn I know this isn't a unique thought around these parts, but browsing /r/fountainpens really is just a waste. Everyone posts their new pens (and hey, new pens are fun), but that gives the impression that EVERYONE is constantly buying new pens. You then also get the posts of "look at my 100 TWSBI Ecos in a rainbow". Do you really need to matchy matchy that badly? How do you use all those pens?
The TWSBI thing I can get to some extent because they aren't terribly expensive and hold ink forever and yes I have 10 of them but I use them all because they *always* have ink when I want them.
But the more expensive brands with hundreds of colors like Sailor are harder to understand.
@jimp @timelordiroh @jezlyn Agreed, I have a pile of twsbi's (but I think I have enough, also around ten), and I have allowed myself to collect Kaweco sports because they're inexpensive and fill that "fun rainbow" slot in my brain. But I am really not getting the, for instance, sailors that people are getting every edition of. I have a sailor, I like it. I don't necessarily need more of them, especially not at that price point.
@silhelm @jimp @timelordiroh Yup, Sailor is one brand I had in mind when I thought of companies that release *so many* pens in a year. I am surprised they've kept up this release frequency for so long.
@jezlyn @silhelm @timelordiroh One benefit of getting into these things late is so many limited/special editions have already passed and are essentially unobtainable that there is no hope of being a completionist. That helps my goblin brain turn FOMO to JOMO (Joy).
@jimp @silhelm @timelordiroh Heh, for me it just feels like more of a dagger to my heart because I just missed certain limited editions and now will never obtain it. 
Over time I've gotten over the feeling, and every now and again I'll see someone selling a pen that I thought was forever off the market, so a couple things I try to keep in mind are, "there's always another pen," and "someone might be willing to sell the pen you want".
@jezlyn @jimp @silhelm @timelordiroh
I feel this way about ink 
@BennysLittleThings @jimp @silhelm @timelordiroh Yeah, that, too! But at least with ink it seems that manufacturers kind of make similar inks and may eventually get around to making a lookalike. Not in all cases, of course.