Who benefits" is a fun pen trick but it cuts both ways. Take it seriously and you have to ask who benefits from the endless sealed file stuff too, because a mystery that never ends sells books, podcasts, and keeps people mad at the government forever. The 1992 law said all the records get released by 2017 unless the president blocks it, and both Trump and Biden did block parts of it, so the real answer is probably boring: agencies covering up their own sloppy work from 60 years ago, not some grand plan. Your uncle was right to ask the question, but I'd push back on the idea that the fighting is about "who decides what we know." Half the guys arguing online haven't read a single page of the actual files.

A buddy of mine did the same thing with his first donut, spent weeks thinking his icing was cursed until he saw the little axis letters pop up when he hit S then Z. The Blender donut guy does say "scale on Z" but if you're new you don't even know what that means yet, so you just grab the widget and yank. Those shortcut keys should honestly be in giant letters at the top of every tutorial.