Compilations display better (and can still be stored in Silver Age bags) and generally have back-matter that single issues lack. They make more sense.
Over the years I have gone from sometimes "upgrading" to compilations to buying single issues to kill time between compilations and now simply waiting for said compilations in some cases.
No, I jest, this is a line destined to suffer being a kiddie toy line forever, Hasbro has not a clue how to let real story develop into something that breaches the small number of fans it currently has.
Not sure it is fair to blame Hasbro. Are they really holding the content back, or are they neglecting it? (I tend to think it is the latter.)
Tragically, with the brand changing management over and over every few years, I doubt we'll ever really keep that richer world where these characters are defined as much by who they are as they are by what they can do, and that's the sort of thing that's always held Transformers back
It is also perception among non-fans. There are still plenty of people (comic fans and otherwise) who will shit on TF comics/fans for being....TF. I can understand the stigma. Saying "TF had a linear story for the course of years when many comics were falling in to static patterns" is a tough sell.
Part of the "legacy and lore" that I always liked was that TFs had that mental block. They were depicted as hugely powerful alien space robots. But, they had no idea where they came from (not unlike humans in a sense). And, they had a slow learning curve. This idea goes back to the G1 cartoon. ("Five Faces of Darkness" is not well animated executed. But, I always liked that concept for the TF origin better than any others.) It showed up in G2, Dreamwave, Bayformers and has been teased in IDW.
Being an enormous space robot is an advantage. But, when they encounter a highly adaptable species (humans), that advantage is diminished. (Many of the big "upgrades" in the old Marvel series involved TFs using non-Cybertronian tech/species.) That still learning curve accented the "changes over time", particularly in Costa's run. (3 years after AHM, the Transformers were still flailing around like headless chickens while humans had been developing tech to kill Cybertronians and rebuilding cities/institutions that Cybertronians were arguably unable to have build in the first place.)
The irony is that Roberts is introducing the idea of Cybertronians being dynamic and flexible at exactly the time that the comics are becoming more generic. "Dark Cybertron" was a generic comic event. (Hasbro may have mandated character appearances. But, I doubt they mandated the generic event as a whole.) After Dark Cyberton, several dead characters were raised. And, Optimus has returned to fight Decepticons....on Earth. (And, Thundercracker is with them.)
The presence of characters like Megatronn and Ravage in "More than Meets the Eye" means that any changes in that book are less likely to stick. I hope that Megatron and Ravage stay in space. I hope that Starscream does not go back to the Decepticons. I want BB and Shockwave to stay dead. But, the more I look at the comics, the more I doubt those things will happen.
Between the kids who don't participate in the higher storytelling going on here, and the fans who reject it because it has new ideas that build off the past rather than stick rigidly to that past, there's no hope of it lasting the test of time.
This is not unique to Transfans. It happens with comics in general.
There are plenty of kids and backwards adults who do not like change.
Many of the new/younger readers who have gotten in to comics with "New 52" DC or Marvel's movies are falling for tricks that guys like me just shake our heads at. (I spotted "Axis" for being crap when it came out. But, somewhere, somebody thinks that it is awesome and legitimately going to matter in a year or so.) There are fans who were annoyed by Slott's run on "Spider-Man" because it was not Peter Parker fighing a member of the Sinister 6 in yet another predictable punch-fest.
That is not much different from the people who complain about Megatron leading a ship full of Autobots or who are offended at the idea of Starscream running Cybertron. (I know a GeeWunner who actually sees that as a great wrong that must be righted.)
Meanwhile, I stick with "More than Meets the Eye" partly out of habit, dreading a return to stasis-quo that will be masked by yet another temporary "big change". (I want to be wrong about the return to stasis-quo. But, I do not expect to be.)