On my end, the minute that an actual legit leak from an insider happens, I would be really uncertain that it's actually real at all until the event happens. That's how I felt about the B&K leak. In this case, it'd be because every single time a Smash announcement might coincide with a Crash release, something else comes up instead.
For what it's worth, some of my educated reasoning (sometimes based on possible evidence) took varying amounts of time to come true.
- Isabelle as a non-Echo
- Ultimate getting DLC
- Ultimate getting more than one DLC season
- Monster Hunter not being prioritized for a fighter
- any random text leak on 4/5Chan being fake (aside maybe the one for the last three base game period fighters)
My current reasonings are probably among the least likely yet, and that includes a June/E3 reveal for Crash, based on how Activision's marketing patterns operate and the recent curious explosion of Crash happenings this month. My patience gets rewarded sooner or later, but it's definitely a challenge dealing with a scene where the benefit of the doubt doesn't exist.
Compare now to how it used to be back in the Smash 4 days. You practically had to comb the web to find any proof of him getting any sort of ballot support at all, and his series was dead as dirt.
To be fair, Galeem/Dharkom can kill everything, even the goddamn Absolutely Safe Capsule, which can't be broken into according to its own creator.