Hey, if this was triggered by my comment about WotA, I was just making sure that the context for my comment was “I have not played the game in it’s current version,” you know?
From my perspective, being “in the know” is 100% dependent on your relationships with the people making things. There’s stuff going on on the west coast, in particular, that I’m totally ignorant of because I don’t really have strong relationships with those folks, but I’ve read or playtested stuff from midwest folks that will trickle out over the next couple years cuz those are my people.