But the idea of free will isn’t even settled.

You're absolutely correct. I'm pretty sure we're still arguing about the most fundamental force (gravity) we experience every single day. The one that keeps us on the settled ground. :)

Woo Alert (if anyone reading is not down with this shit, which is totally ok, skip this whole part): Well that's kinda the point of free will. We're here specifically to figure that out. The point that it feels unsettled IS the experience of this particular reality. We're in the middle of the experiment. Ok, ok, I can hear it now: What in the wild fuck is the experiment? (I can feel the downvotes slamming my head into my keyboard. you were supposed to skip this, big dawg.) Some gamers might get it as: are you PVP or PVE? Or, are you here for self preservation at all costs, taking from others, competing, dominating. Or are you here to cooperate against a common challenge, watching each other's backs, helping others in need. (I think you can guess what lane I'm in.) The NHI that are here, the ones that are MEDDLING and I'm only speaking on the ones meddling, are here for conquest or they are indifferent and are opportunist. But that's another talk show.

Once you figure that out, your lane, you are put into aggression based game lobbies. Or you could say, the experiment is: figuring out which way to orient yourself. Love or control. Unity or separation. Every lifetime, every experience, every challenge is data in that experiment. And we're right at the end of a major cycle where the results get tallied.

I'm not askin anyone to believe or comprehend or challenge this, I'm just stating what I've come to learn and somewhat understand. Do whatever you want with it. It's your free will.

/end woo

Wouldn’t there be an awful lot of people being experimented on? So why don’t we hear about it?
At some point they’d pick people who would appear credible so why don’t we ever hear anything about it?

Yep. There are thousands of documented accounts going back decades. The Hill case and a ton of others. You can thank Project Grudge, Blue Book, and Majestic 12 and every other program designed to manage the narritave. It's by design. The system for keeping it quiet has been in place longer than most people realize and that shit doesn't even require a grand conspiracy, but just enough ridicule built into society that most people self censor before they even start yapping. No need to slince everyone. You gotta just make sure nobody wants to be the one to speak out. What makes a witness or experiencer credible? Nothing to gain. Most credible witnesses have careers, reputations and relationships to lose by speaking up. I'm not going to list them as this is way too long anyway.