You have to keep the whole threat space in mind. Q is a multi-pronged operation that doesn't just have one objective.
Fact of the matter is that whether there was a plan in play to arrest the deepnstate, or not - someone would launch an operation to blunt conservative outrage in general. This is the biggest hill in the road for us paranoid types. Either we let the justice system work and be watchful of it - or we all hang together as rebels. There is very little margin for an inbetween. We can't destroy the government and simultaneously try to use the courts to enact justice.
So - Q is here to calm us the fuck down and get us to cough up the black pill for a moment and have a bit of optimism. This is what it is.
The other side of this is that Q deliberately phrased many statements to be multi-edged. You can read out of them what you want, in many cases, and there was ample ways the deep state could read out of Q's statements that Q was duping us and was one of their own ops.
This is part of the reason for the one year delay in many things. Q had to appear to be a psyop to get the democrats to trust the plan. Just as we have to trust the plan. It's this multi-faceted meaning that has confused many.
There are other aspects of it that many are not ready for. Disinformation has existed for a very long time and many people have built entire theologies (and then some) on this disinformation. There is going to be a long process of breaking down the lies - and the fact also is that some of these lies will be believed by many, fully, until the day they die. Not all, and it depends on the subject - but it is the way things work.