I'm a bit leery of the picture being built up here. I bet some of what people say here "as staff" is legit, but it's not like we can verify.

However, agree: if there's an actual technical reason for not wrangling new fandoms in this situation (is there a bug when a fandom is wrangled and there are both revealed and unrevealed works in that fandom?) then they should be transparent about it, and if they can't be, wtf.