ah Grasshopper Manufacture. Some permutation of them made one of my fav ds games Contact I super recommend! it is cut of a similar cloth to Undertale/Deltarune and other games that play around with the split between Player (you) and Player Character (not you)...

Anyway, the news post that is linked in the OP (which, i may point out, never mentions reddit and what happens there whatsoever), is imo pretty straight forward and transparent. But I will sparknotes it here: HICU was made as a group of artists who wanted to revive HS^2. Many of those artists have also -and continue to- contribute to more official HS works which caused people to be confused because it has "Homestuck" in the name ((I guess the "Independent" was ignored, which is similar to how people got tripped up over what an "Official Unofficial" continuation means.)) a problem that only got worse as og HS ramped up in activity again. It is still the same people, Miles and Kim are and have been co-directors for a little bit now so I have no idea why Who Owns/Runs This Group keeps being argued about. The team is willing and exited about doing More beyond uh Beyond Canon.

I continue to not see how discussing what people are yelling about on reddit is worth the time or is like. Relevant at all (and yet.. here I am... wasting many a word). Its just people making a big stink about things which is like. Why are we talking about what other people are saying/speculating about the news moreso than the Actual News.