This is extremely inside baseball tea leaf reading, but ISW has gotten noticeably more accurate in their geolocation assessments recently. They have been pointedly absent from recent (quite dour) WSJ articles on Bakhmut, which cited other "strategic studies" think tanks but not ISW where ISW used to be an almost exclusive source for WSJ NYT CNN.

ISW was also absent from yesterday's NYT article on Bakhmut in favor of UK military intelligence