Yet none of what is going on is any real surprise to the Q researchers?
Know a lot about all that research, do you?
Research? Okay, I'll bite.
Name one tangible, valuable, final work product, of all this "research".
Example: Freepers discovered modern superscript in a document which was purportedly produced by the Texas Air National Guard (regarding GWB's wartime service), that was being broadly publicized by Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News. Discovery of the superscript proved beyond a shadow of doubt that the document was fake. That, in turn, led to Dan Rather's fall from grace.
That was a tangible, valuable, final work product, derived from grass roots research. Show me anything of comparable magnitude that has been produced by the Q community.