RinoZ
The evolution to Anthony's special bits definitely made the ants more devoted to him. So the council has already caught on that the Eldest isn't as perfect as they thought, but who will find out next? Also Sloan, what do you expect? Of course he was going to push to the third strata. Anthony. Is. AN IDIOT! But our idiot
I didn't think about it till it was mentioned but a new generation of ants are born every couple days at most so most of the colony never even saw Anthony b4. Also kinda explains the reverence that the historians had when they recorded things down cause on the council of 20 and the queen really know about Anthony's quirks.