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Cancellation: None of the main series had the sales to even crack fifteen issues, quickly putting them to bed before First Strike. The rebranded follow-ups didn't last very long leading IDW to pull the plug on the whole thing less than a year later.
A notable example happened with Scarlett's Strike Force. After Aubrey Sitterson, the comic's writer, made some controversial comments about 9/11, he was instructed to downplay his online presence, resulting in a lack of advertising for the book that led to it being cancelled before it even released.
It appears that the creative team of Transformers More Than Meets the Eye didn't care much for the HCU; but at the same time, they said that they didn't outright hate it; avoiding any crossovers save one issue (which mocked the whole concept without any mercy). Some comments suggested that they viewed the other franchises as riding the coattails of Transformers and found the whole thing to be overhyped and unnecessary.
Mairghread Scott, author of The Transformers: Till All Are One turned down the offer to write a tie-in for First Strike for her series, having no interest in writing for the other Hasbro franchises.
Doing It for the Art: In an interview for the then upcoming 2019 Transformers comic, John Barber said that, since the HCU had proven financially unviable, it would not be rebooted in the new Transformers comic continuity, or the Joe one that followed not long after, but that all of the writers were very happy with what they'd written, and they'd gotten the chance to reimagine their childhood favorites, even if it hadn't sold well.
The Jem and Clue comics are treated as a sort of "Pseudo-Canon." They're not written with the intent to be in the HCU but the writings staffs apparently consider them canon so long as nothing in either book outright contradicts the other (i.e.: a Cobra t-shirt in Jem can be taken as either a Shout-Out or a budding terrorist).
By its very nature, Aw Yeah Revolution! simply cannot be canon.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: A mixture of Old Shame and IDW losing the licenses to Transformers and G.I. Joe means that the HCU is not available on digital marketplaces as of January 2023. The only way to collect everything from scratch is through physical copies.
Old Shame: Seems to at least partially be one. In March 2021, any title that wasn't Transformers, ROM or Micronauts was removed from Comixology. Including the Crisis Crossovers.
The Inhumanoids were to be the baddies of G.I. Joe Vol. 5 but Hasbro had lost the trademark forcing the writers to use the Fatal Fluffies instead. That being said, the actual heroes of the franchise, the Earth Defense Corps, did make it, so Inhumanoids as a franchise is part of the Hasbroverse.
ROM and Micronauts had to have quite a few changes from their original depictions due to rights issues with Marvel Comics (who had pretty much built the lore of the two franchises from the ground up back in the '70s and '80s). It was particularly bad in ROM's case as all IDW had the rights to was anything mentioned in the original Parker Brothers commercial. And even then, they had to redesign Rom and the Wraiths from their Marvel designs.
Word of God: Per backmatter in Revolutionaries #8, Smarts is the ancestor of Lucky Smarts from the 2010 Pound Puppies series, or at least a version that exists in the HCU.
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