Are you saying the removal of RoA, TSI, and LB was widely expected within the fan community? I didn't get that impression from the reaction this past year. Very knowledgeable people seemed surprised and have filled many hours of video content about it. Including Imagineers. I haven't heard a lot of "But we all knew this was coming of course...."
So my comment about what kind of reaction I would have gotten if I proposed that on the forum in 2018 wasn't me saying Disney didn't have plans to do this going back a decade or whatever. Who knows what's discussed inside Disney or what info some have heard about. That wasn't my point.