I don't have the newest book, so it's harder for me to weigh in on just exactly how I might feel about it, but I think I can weigh in on principle.
I fear the idea that there is no answer at all, and not just there isn't one that will be known. For some things, like Stone, it doesn't really matter. Or, it wouldn't matter in this case if it wasn't repeatedly brought to the fore. And in any of the other cases, for example if now that Stone is "back" if there kept being hints about who he really was (he's the REAL Fredrick Steiner!), or if it seems that it might become important (in ilClan, perhaps) then it would be important that, at least behind the sceans, there was a known answer.
In universe, after all, the truth must in fact be out there. Something, or several paralell things, did (or did not) take place. So, logically, hints should tend to be consistant, because they're all coming from the same 'truth' even if that truth never becomes known to people in or out of universe.
But, if the truth isn't really out there, and difrent authors (or line devlopers, mind you, though don't think I don't wish the present crew a long and fruitful tenure) might not be constrained to make their hints consistant.
Now, I get that even in real life contradictory information can exist. What was Brutis' true motovation in killing Ceaser? Did Alexander of Macedon really just get sick, or was it poison? Did Hellen really want to leave with Paris, or would she rather have stayed with Menilaus? (or insert your own non Greeco-Roman example, but I figured events from 2-3 thousand years ago would be less politically charged). But, the broad outlines are generally understood (and more so for events only a few centuries old which I won't bring up) and the discussion can often come down to much finer distinctions.
In this case, I question an attempt to deliberately muddy the waters, because one questions weather there would be that much dispute. Granted, the idea of the Tribe as Clan scouts isn't new, as it was floated with the Jenner IIC fluff decades ago. But, I feel like with deceades of in and out of universe devlopment since then, with several sorces noting that in the post Clan and especally post Jihad universe it is a much bigger topic for study, the idea of so contridictory a position being floated seems... out there. Though of course, I suppose one who wanted could always just put it down to propoganda, perhaps by the Wolverines themselves.
In the end, the main point isn't that I want things resolved, or that I can about the resolution, but more than I would hope that there is a sense of consistancy, even if it's consistantly inconsistant, that there is consistantly little evidance or that it is systematicly being covered up, and that in the back of someone's mind, be it a Randel or a Loren or a Ray or whomever else I don't know to name, there is some sense of where this is going, let is just go in a spiral.