Its adorable how you've listed all these things with the assuption that noone but you has considered they may happen. Pretty much everyone who reads this comic and posts on the forum has spent time pulling apart every page and considering the possibilities. Despite what you may think, just because people settled on the idea that there was illusionary trickery going on doesnt mean they never considered any alternatives.
It seems fairly silly to point fingers and go 'har har you were wrong and i'm right (sing-song voice)'. FYI saying youre not going to do a bunch of gloating actually manages to be more irritating BECAUSE you are gloating whilst trying to pass off a vaneer of moral superiority.
And again you talk about there needing to be forshadowing before something can even be considered to have happened.. then pluck the predicamancer dying in Gobwin's Knob out of the air and bang on about a sentient hammer again (pun intended).
I still don't think its clear cut who is good and evil here unless you subscribe to the stereotypes of creature type. I find that both sides have likeable and dislikable qualities.
There is something else youve said though which i totally agree with: 'Either I got certain portions of this storyline figured out or I don't.' All of us are in this boat until the storyline is played out. I think people might take you more seriously if you didnt come across as so insufferably smug when ideas don't pan out for other people.