cleaning fired brass 101

[lazyengineer]

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Decap and resize in one stroke with a full length bushing die with an expander ball. No run out issues using tapered bushings.
Wet tumble, flush, then separate and hand dry in a beach towel.
Then right to the annealeez for annealing. This completely dries the inside of case at the same time. 100 cases take about 20 minutes to anneal and dry. I don’t know if it’s carbon from the propane torch or some residue from the brass gassing off but, this way ...

So you anneal after resizing? So far I've heard 3 schools of thoughts:
1)Anneal BEFORE resizing, for a beneficial work hardening effect that will give a more consistent neck tension/spring upon bullet seating thereafter, in relation to your next cycle (where you won't anneal). This is the most common claim.
2)Anneal AFTER resizing, which is one extra stretch event "erased" by having been more freshly annealed.
3)Before or after is by and large only relevant for a bolt action shooter at 1000 yards if even then, so it doesn't matter
4)Annealing is a waste of time.

Historically I'm at 4. But I have to say most of my Grendel brass I lose, I lose due to neck splits. It seems like my reloading process really works the heck out of my brass, though the splits only happen after firing it. A friend loaned me Anealeez for a few months, since he only uses every year or so. So, I figure heck, i'll play with it. In my case, my issues are pushing me to your sequence, of #2 - doing it after sizing. In particular, I mandrel my necks, so in theory, I'll get the beneficial work hardening effect from my sized brass, when I do that, anyway to at least some extent (maybe?).