I think you're externalizing it too much.
My opinions are absolutely objective fact. Whatever I say is the undisputed truth. If anyone disagrees, they're wrong, because I'm always right.
That you're "lucky" if you only want select items.
Jokes aside, I see folks on the internet who are obsessed with one or two things and are able to genuinely enjoy them. I get bored easily so I always cycle through a wide selection. But then I see diehards who'll defend something no matter what to the point where they hate the competition, and in a strange way I am a tad envious of that. It might be idiotic (if for example you enjoy an IP just because of the name you never cared for it, as you're accepting whatever nonsense they're shoving down your throat to make a buck, and aren't exercising your critical thought), but it's so much more simple. So uncomplicated. You just... "like" things. It's sad too, but you get the point.
From what I've come to understand, is that we all have a palette of sorts. Some genres or themes or even just aesthetics we gravitate to, and we build a taste of various different, but similar in certain aspects, things, across all forms of media. And they occupy different tiers of attachment.
You left out a third and I think much more common option: You actually are into dozens of licenses that you enjoy or even love, but you choose not to buy stuff from everything.
Certainly. But I don't really have that problem, even though I ramble on a lot. I have a "hierarchy" of sorts. Things I enjoy purely due to atmosphere, others due to the narrative, and so on. I have rules for whatever merch I buy. I can love a movie but find the characters visually boring or nothing special writting and performance wise, and thus I'm not moved to buy anything, even if merch exists. I'll break my rules and get a 6" figure or some such once in a while, but it has to be something that makes sense. Interstellar, writing aside, was a genuine trip. But I'm not gonna go hunt down a Neca Coop, you know? I don't need an Anton Chigurgh as a Sideshow Premium Format. I enjoyed playing Dead Space, and I have all 3, but I don't need to spend 400$ on an Isaac and put him next to a Deckard. You get the point. I have to like the character and the piece of media they originate from to even consider getting something. And these have their own tiers and so it goes.
At the end of the day, it comes down to discipline and will-power, whether you actually order all these figures, or can appreciate them from afar without giving into the urge to own them.
Most surely. If you don't curate your collection, it's not really a collection. Just things you buy. It's why I don't mind the long waits. Whatever I get I've known I was going to get for years now. Impulse buys aren't my thing. So I wait for the best costume, the improved version; I don't mind. There are sometimes dillemas in the sense that too many things from my checklist can appear at the same time forcing me to make a choice, but I generally have a plan for everything I buy.
If you actually want them, have the space for them and can comfortably afford them, there's nothing wrong with getting a lot of course. But based on your posts, I always get a sense that you're not actually (much) happier ordering most of these. As you call it an uphill "battle", where you want to come out as a victor (see what I did there).
Look, all cards on the table, not all of my posts are exactly completely, 100% honest.
It is true that there are some figures I buy mostly to tick off something. Maybe because my parents have fond memories of them or due to a general nostalgia. I can't like every character the same way. So sure, not every purchase carries the same weight. More often than not I just like getting caught up in the hype for a Pre-Order or a new reveal, coming here to make some posts, go through the motions. But a day or two later I don't think of it at all if it wasn't something I haven't had on my list since I was 15, you know?
Instead I would suggest to look at it from another perspective: try to see and accept that in life you have to make choices and say no to things you want, because we are not infinite. That is not an "annoying" part of life that should bring you constant distress, it simply is. If you can slowly learn to accept that, you can be much happier with the choices you do make and options you say yes to.
Bah.
Jesting aside, I think I've got a relatively good handle on it these days. I was much more of a completionist way back when, but thankfully I was also not really into what was being released at the time. If anything as the years pass you shed passing "affairs" and focus only on the "important" bits (as important as choosing which cape you want to get as a dolly can be). What bothers me is that I can never know what's coming. MCU casting/clothing, if something will get merch at all. I know I'll need Solid Snake, Big Boss and Raiden, but it's a toss-up if licenced 1/6th of them will ever happen. Or if they might hit while I'm in the middle of setting up my X-Men and I'll have to choose. It's not me impulse buying [Generic New Capeflick MC From Forgotten 70s Comic] that "worries" me, it's those types of choices.
Either way, like I said, I exaggerate a bit. But it's fun, so... eh. Thus far I've made it without regretting a single figure, and I intend to keep it that way.
edited my post. I don’t care for Horror stuff so I completely forgot about that 
