When you've played this sim for 20 years, were a beta tester for a number of years, and spent those 20 years sharing knowledge and insights with the community and the game's developers,
come back and tell us how much you're skeptical of your own insights.
At any rate, I'm not looking to quarrel with anyone, and I see that you've realized that you might have been a bit hasty in your initial reaction or skepticism. But, at a certain point, people should probably take the time to look at other community members' profiles, the sheer number of posts they've made, the deep insights they've shared across countless threads, give them the benefit of the doubt.
No, as a Pyrrhonian skeptic in my own right, I don't expect anyone to take anything on faith. But there are some simple observations that can be made, some quick searches or research that can be done, some reviews of the game manual, and some simple data points that can be reviewed, and those can all help people place some initial trust in what they're reading.
However, lately, we're seeing a number of posts where everything from sincere replies by informed community members to the developers' intentions are being questioned without any evidence to support that skepticism. I've challenged that a couple of times, and I make no apologies for that. It's a two-way street, so if people want to be skeptical, they should start by looking at themselves first.