Bleh, most factional blocs always prefer to keep their laundry cleaning private anyway, in the hope to prevent giving the enemy free ammo and let them see the internal in fighting.
And it's better that way, it becomes less tedious to know what's going on (unlike Arek Jalaan or the Sansha invasions that were monopolized by a few chosen players). There is still place for more private secret stuff happening.
Can you go into detail about the bolded part?
It is good to have a certain balance between the public part to make sure that every RPer can interact, and also good to remain open to players for interactions. And between the private part where dedicated players can go into more details and intrigue according to their specific RP.
In the Sansha Invasions in particular, almost the totality of the actors-players interaction was centered around Syne and Soter, for example.
AJ was more open though, but if you were not specifically involved in it, no news, nothing.
The crucial difference here is that we now have NPC contacts to at least bypass that issue a little.