We aren't being played but we receive a shit ton of disinformation - because we are not the only ones watching this board.
We probably receive an even blend of lies and truth from Q. That is probably the only way he/they can make this project work since it is being conducted entirely in public view.
But your appraisal of "troubling" strikes a chord with many of us. Going on 10 months and we have been told of more and more high crimes, on top of all the high crimes we have been aware of since before Q came around. More and more to be enraged about, and almost every day Q posts, we learn of more.
To this point, not one single bit of this massive criminal enterprise has been made public let alone prosecuted.
That puts us in a weird position, for sure, one that tests our capacity for internalizing knowledge of evil. We have to exercise discernment, and patience.
Either we will see justice delivered, or we will become vanguards of the revolution to end all revolutions.