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It's sort of a reason not to trust Lae'zel, but she has proven to know the most about Mindflayers and has a lead to deal with the tadpoles. (Gale knows around as much, but does not provide a lead.) So she isn't lying, and I don't think she's being deceiving - she's a pretty straight forward character. But I think what she is hiding is that she is unsure of the process herself, whether they are even worthy of it, or if purification itself is just death itself. She has the same look during the Gith Patrol scene when she is unsure of what's going down.
I also don't think she's pulling all this out of thin air because she mentioned she studied extensively in the libraries of her creche.

It's like, it may be a good lead, and I don't have any reason to believe she's lying, but it's best to prepare for it as a tough road to go down. Which is also an in game reason to yes, understand Lae'zel's urgency, but to also know that you shouldn't run into it without being prepared. At present, it is too easy to make the mistake of making a bee line to the Gith Patrol scene, only to get wrecked as a new player. It would be nice if they could add some more overt element that you should probably gain some experience under your belt before going that route.

The thing that bugs me about Lae'zel's lead and her questline is that it feels like it's meant to be the primary lead we're supposed to follow. She's the first proper NPC we meet, the first companion, and the purification ritual and the option of the creche is quite literally one of the first pieces of information we get in the game. And yet based on the difficulty of the combat and the levels of the Githyanki patrols, as well as how far away it is relatively speaking, it's obviously not the intention that we beeline straight for that obvious dangling carrot they hung in front of us.

Then again, even if you try to go Lae'zel's route directly, you still typically have enough rests and interactions to realize things aren't as urgent as they seem at the beginning. And as long as you are not completely speedrunning and ignoring everything else, you'll probably be at least lvl3 at that encounter. Though I do think it should be easier to avoid that fight.