As a person who spent a not insignificant amount of time writing rulesheets back in the day, given out tons of advice in recent years to anyone who asks, and occasionally received some from others particularly on Sterns which I don’t play other than tournaments (one notable example was Elwin suggesting villain + Wolverine on X-Men would probably be enough to win a group a couple years ago), and watches lots of gameplay video and reads lots of discussion on game rules (to the point I knew enough to manage to beat Lyman on a finals advancement on Mustang (which I had literally never played before other than the 30s warmup)), I’m extraordinarily saddened to read stuff like this.
Guess we’ll all just stick to our little cliques and see how it turns out.