The Gods of the Empire have plenty of devoted worshippers, including spellcasters, they can have faith will fulfill their every whim.
What they lack is honest friends who know them well enough to look them in the eye and say perhaps there's a better way.
Until Magnus and Teclis the gods of the Empire were unified in their desire to murder all arcane magic users. They may have had good reason for this, but it still wasn't the best approach.
We don't know the reasons the gods don't explain their nature to their worshipers. There are a variety of possible explanations, including that they simply don't know and don't want to admit it, or that the description in Realms of Sorcery is right and they are at least partially defined by their worship and that's an insult to their ego.
What we don't know is that their reasons are good enough to justify continuing the policy in the face of a changing world. The Warhammer gods are fallible, both morally and practically, and we should both recognise that and be prepared to manage that.
This is, I think, a far greater gift to the gods than yet another devotee putting faith before truth.
Calling the pursuit of the truth of the gods, essentially, vanity is not accurate, when part of Mathilde's literal job as a Grey Magister is preventing the subversion of the Empire by hostile gods. Truth is not about personal satisfaction, it's about improving the ability of humanity to survive in a world where the actions of the divine can cause immense damage.
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