I just got done reading about this topic fairly heavily for the past year and it might not shock you to learn that it’s substantially more complicated than the

I just got done reading about this topic fairly heavily for the past year and it might not shock you to learn that it’s substantially more complicated than the sentence you have reduced it to. However, in the full context it’s actually not very surprising at all and everyone involved agreed that it made sense and was ultimately the right thing to do.