I have been suspected that the whole elder god thing being lumped in with the horrors is an attempt to reboot and update then to a legal-friendly fashion. I didnt get into SR till 4th ed (and a couple earlier 2nd ed games with a buddy's dad's group), so I dont know as mucha bout them as a lot of you guys, but it seems like a big thene of 5th ed is freshening up old threats. CFD lead to another chance to interact with Deus. Now we are seeing more buggy stuff. I think they probably want to start using the horrors again, but need a new name for then. Elder gods is cliche, and I hate how Lovecraft works as a straightjacket for anything that smells of cosmic horror, but as long as they stop at renaming, I'm okay .
For plan 9 conspiricies, here is one of mine..
Wondering where the swt comes from? Plan 9 has an idea! The cards arent as random as they seem. The way that elements and symbols work together to suggest meaning is actually spot on with the tjought patterns of obsevred "AI dreams," but they are also clearly magical. It's the workd's first magical AI. The holoprojectors are actually the first pieces it made - more familiar. CFD sae infected mages, and for tye first time, AIs had direct access to magic. Several xenosapients who had overwritten mages were later combined within a server into a powerful gestalt that has now becone obsessed witg magic, chaos theory, and divination.