You buried the lede there. Every single bit of bullshit since 2015 has been due to this, where the NPCs can't see shit until it's too late, and normal people are called paranoid conspiracy theorists until they're proven right.
What was shocking for me was to realise just how many people are functional NPCs who will give up all freedoms for the tiniest bit of security. Educated people, blue collar workers, obvious retards: some fall prey to the brainwashing and groupthink, others don't, and there's no way to know who is in which camp until it's too late.
It all feels a bit fucking pointless to hate troons now that they've already destroyed our bathroom honour codes, social graces and norms, high trust society, childhood protections, and basic public decency. Hating troons would've mattered about 10 fucking years ago.