Maybe it does. Thing is, though, is this isn't a bible study group. This is a group about studying Q posts and analyzing current events. If there was even an inkling of anything related to gematria in even one Q drop, I'd be willing to give it a bit more credibility. There isnt any mention, though, and every tenuous connection that says "Justice is coming" in gematria can also mean "elephants are green" or "doves shit blue sky" or something else. It just doesnt seem at all relevant. Maybe it is, like you say, that we lack the understanding. If we do, then perhaps it should not be put forward as a theory on what is or isnt being said in messages.

This is the right take! Gematria is never to be used to prove something by itself, in the rare cases that it's rightly used it's to supplement a proof given by other means. Matthew knew Jesus was Messiah and Son of David, but he supplemented that by emphasizing the fourteens in their genealogy because daleth-waw-daleth (Dawid) equals fourteen. He was saying, look, this is the "right" generation for Messiah to appear.

So if Trump is standing in front of seventeen flags, that's supplemental. If Q says look at this watch I posted and look at what later happened at that time, that's supplemental, and other coincidences of the same kind may also be admissible. But if the digital sum of a couple of numbers taken together happens to be 45 because you fudged it to work out, you're making it up out of whole cloth. Short version.