There's "we don't know what's going to happen" and there's "WP is going to get us speculating on what will happen, then drop all the characters they've already given us information on to introduce entirely new ones, thus making all our speculation worthless". Like, a mystery would SUCK if the culprit was introduced only in the last chapter so we couldn't possibly have guessed. More characters, yes, but I figured they'd be in future Parts and introduced with another Troll Call set.

Why does a new set of characters have to invalidate the previous one? You’re making it seem like there’s only a single storyline going on through the entirety of Hiveswap, given what we’ve seen with the Troll Call, we’re going on a long journey through Alternia. Why does it have to be so dramatic?