Derin

Here’s his latest post on the matter

Not to be pedantic, but your critique of the existence of an announcement trailer feels like walking into a pizza shop, ordering a pizza, then getting mad because you wanted a burger.

If you don’t like announcement teasers then don’t watch them and just wait for the reveal trailer to release?

It usually goes announcement -> teaser -> reveal -> the rest

There is no risk of others finding it if you don’t turn on federation. It becomes a fully private instance. Just set federation to false.