Just as an opinion, what I've learned from Cicada Liber Primus solving is that you need to catalog EVERYTHING you do. It gets really crazy with what people are trying versus what hasn't been tried yet.
Doing something like unit tests or just uploading the code is really useful.
I think that when someone hits a clear path, every followed step will be cataloged, at least for himself. At this point, and I am following the thread from almost the start (and the other chats that appeared), only thoughts and theories are being tested. This puzzle is using a different logic than previous ones.