I don’t know
Maybe we re dealing with a negative ET race?
With assistance from positive ET races?
With complex AIs both negative and positive running timeline probabilities to see what actions result in outcomes favoring each side?
Game of chess?
The complexity of the plan and the war we are fighting good vs evil might be a little more complicated and methodical than you could imagine. I bet you’re right though, most of Q would obviously be misdirects, but if the enemy hasn’t figured that out by now “they’re really stupid”