Aaah, yeah, gotcha.
The only issue is: even commodity markets are not immune to investor sentiment.
Media and any other talking head, may not be attuned to markets as well as they think, so I can see the case for not reacting to their every (or ANY) statement. But Putin/ Iran/ EU/ OPEC or OPEC+ actually making a statement on what they are going to do in the oil markets is enough to move the needle. As it should be, they have real effects in the oil market. And analysts are looked at as the experts (which doesn't guarantee they are correct) at trying to decipher all the tea leaves related to this market, which means that investors will usually follow their consensus.
At least until, as you say, the Actual cuts or production numbers come to light.