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I have been pretty closely involved with DD and it has been endlessly frustrating when a punter asks why a character does x and there is literally a sub chapter on it. I get it BT is a big universe and it is hard to keep track of things. See just a few posts ago how many don't realise how strong the DC actually is. Earlier we had people suggesting the Dominion's next steps are dependent upon the Khans as if the Ghost Bears are still in charge. Things like Alaric Senpai get memed and you have a whole new set of preconceptions that are going to be disappointed when reality happens.
Honestly I am starting to to think adding complexity like regional differences or recognising how few MechWarriors there are was a mistake. Assuming a 50/50 Clan/Rasalhague split and having a black hat white hat war would have been simpler, even if it ignored prior sources. Except that has its own set of problems.
It feels like TPTB are in world / setting building mode. There is a ton of detail, and a fantastic amount of gray space and story hooks for players to attach their stories and campaigns too. Taking in everything from FM3135, ER3145, and Bonfire of Worlds is still just a massive amount of information, and it's all bouncing off a community that is highly resistant to change.
It will probably take a decade for everything from ilClan to IKEO to become fully understood by the player base.
One of the real "challenges" with the ilClan era, is that facts are spreed out between: sourcebooks, novels, and shrapnel and it's all partially summarized, in an often partisan manner, by YouTubers, Redditors, and forum posters. And everything is made that much harder, because the setting and story is deliberately complicated in order to open up a lot of gray space for players to build campaigns and tell their own stories.
Even for people who have read everything, they need to reach back years to remember the details of a specific scene
Any substantial change to the setting takes something like a decade to be understood and accepted (in at least part) by forum / community.