>I am baffled by this retreat. What happened to cause this?
The chans don't have a theory they are trying to defend.
Any new information is processed with the idea that you go in the direction the new information leads you.
The Twatter world has their 'niche' and 'brand' to defend. Any new information is weighed against its applicability to their 'brand'.
Information is flowing too freely and too quickly at this point for any attempt at analysis by those levels who need to massage a message to fit a particular viewpoint.
It's just the way it is now, so the other sources have to wallow in cognitive dissonance while brute information is passed through the chans.
That's why this venue was chosen. Anons ferret out the information, and if there is an attempt at an analysis, it is only to provide a perspective of how to better follow the new direction.
Twitter, YT, Reddit are not relevant. They can't adapt quickly enough.
JMO