Q drops leak intel in advance to the public, but why? What benefit is there to average people knowing some of this intel?
This is certainly not a means of communicating information through backdoor channels to actual actors; strong asymmetric cryptography exists, and this could be done securely and privately.
The cabal speaks openly and symbolically, hidden in plain sight, and their messages and plans are connected piecemeal; Q posts mirror that.
This is a mechanism to teach many how to read the drops (not Q's drops)—The Great Awakening.
Most newspapers will have a crossword puzzle section. cryptics will range in difficulty. Newsagents sell puzzle books that will show basic cryptics. Like Q there a patterns that the more you proceed the more you understand the message.
Before I discovered Q one month after his first post I did 3 newspaper crosswords daily and loved them!