I think it worth considering that some who are anti-Q have been encouraged in this direction by Q team itself, and this includes many who are pro-MAGA. Why? I can think of several reasons.

1) Many were never going to catch info on Q that made sense to them, and the difficulties intensified once the fake news ramped up the anti-Q operation. Obviously, a devoted investigator could dig through the noise to get at the truth, but not everyone has the time, the inclination, or the ability to do that. There needed to be pro-MAGA voices that did not require some sort of tacit allegiance to Q. I suspect this is at least one reason for Gorka, who is obviously Q team, but repeatedly said "Q is garbage". He put out an intellectually grounded pro-MAGA outlook for those who might not have caught the Q wave for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. (Plus there was a disinfo angle with him…) I would not be the least bit surprised if others (such as Scott Adams) were in cahoots with Q team, while disparaging Q.

2) The current powers clearly decided to portray QAnon as an extremist movement, and this created a threat to all pro-MAGA movements if they were all linked to Q. The largest pro-MAGA venue online is /r/The_Donald, where the mods seem to have prohibited any overtly Q-related stuff for a long time. I recall that at one point the mods there claimed both that attacks on the sub considerably increased if any Q stuff was posted, and that they were told by someone seemingly in a position to know that Q was BS. I would not be the least bit surprised if they were given disinfo. The sub, or the dom as they call it, has consistently functioned for the benefit of POTUS, pumping up energy, pumping out memes and promulgating info. Anons have been there for a long time, upvoting Q stuff that is not overtly marked. If it were overtly marked, the dom would have been doomed.

3) Qresearch and the prior core boards needed a high barrier to entry. As things stand, it is fairly easy to identify shills with a reasonable degree of accuracy, enough so that things actually function. (That said, I am now fairly confident Q shillposts and that I have hurled obscenities at Q…) If Anons were not discouraged from posting unless they were confident they could engage in battle, both because they were capable and had some reasonable knowledge of what there were talking about, the place would have been overrun with all manner of nonsense. I myself caught Q from the start, and even had one NOICE catch very early that I still use, but I didn't really start participating in qresearch until it was the only place left. But I eventually made it my own place, in my own way, and I suspect many other Anons have done the same. Q is now part of my real life, and will be so henceforth.

Godspeed, Anons.