I listened to the first 200-ish episodes of the podcast. He’s the type to make major proclamations on the spot. Like that he’s doing X major cycling event this year, then later realize that wasn’t going to happen. Thus I believe that he is telling us what he thinks is the truth, at least in the moment.
If it weren’t for that, I would take my normal cynical view and think he’s doing it to keep people subscribed while TR improves their product.
Here’s one past example of WLV2 coming soon (pinky promise) from Sep 2022.