I can agree with your assessment. I absolutely understand the value of, shall we call it directed truth?

Maybe some of it is hope that people will be willing and able to see and accept the whole truth of a situation. Some things are better for group a and some for group b. If we work together we can find the best of both.

I suspect you don’t have that same hope. I could absolutely understand that and maybe even consider you the better off of the two of us for that specific circumstance.