Thank you for the reply and reasonable discussion. I agree there is no requirement for transparency, but I thought it might be beneficial just to calmly discuss it. To openly discuss ends the questions, the rumors, the sense of hidden "cult" like activity. As I said, usually when people are excited about their work and the results, they are also excited to talk about it.
Again, thank you for the calm reasonable answer.
I like to think of guilds as "mining pools", which is exactly what it is, with an "outward" distribution added. But of course, IMO the best kind of guilds / companies are the ones that are made porous enough for anyone interested enough to join easily. (after all I wish I could conveniently join and experience companies like Google and Apple lol)