the impact in OS2 obviously comes from the central conflict.
Nobody talks about the fifssures because they are supposed to just have happened when you get there.

meanwhile the magister crackdown on everything?
the plight of the dwarves? the voidwoken everywhere?

You have to be delusional to think that those arent referenced int he dialogue.

If you want all grimdark all the time go wank to the latest 40k space marine book that they spit out every month