If they were talking about it back in 2014, then they weren't confused, but you were mistakenly thinking it was something up to date that you should try to use. If the "guys on the Internet" were discussing the Wireshark 2 preview release recently, they're probably very confused that release is from 2014, more than 4 years ago. So there's really not much reason to use the 1.99.x versions of Wireshark, either, even if they're available to download. The Wireshark 2.0 release included bug fixes that weren't in any of the 1.99.x releases.
However, those weren't the final Wireshark 2.0 release. The beta and release candidate versions of Wireshark 2.0 were numbered as 1.99.x they, unlike the 1.12.1-based "Wireshark 2 preview", included changes to the Wireshark code not in the 1.12 releases, including new protocol dissectors, enhancements to new protocol dissectors, and so on. The "Wireshark 2 preview" was removed in 1.12.2, because "Users wishing to try the Qt UI should use the 1.99.x installers.". So there's really not much reason to use the "Wireshark 2 preview" version of Wireshark from the 1.12.1 installer. It may have changed the way some statistics windows worked, due to the UI change it may also not have had some statistics windows that the regular 1.12.1 version had if those statistics windows hadn't been converted to use Qt yet. It didn't dissect any more protocols, it didn't have any bug fixes to protocol dissection that regular 1.12.1 didn't have, it didn't have support for capturing on any devices that regular 1.12.1 didn't support. The rest of it was just 1.12.1, so, other than the UI changes, it offered no new capabilities that the regular GTK+-based 1.12.1 release offered. The only way in which it was a preview of Wireshark 2 is that it was built using the Qt toolkit, rather than the GTK+ toolkit, so that it had the new Qt-based user interface Wireshark 2 was going to offer the Qt-based user interface as the default, with a "legacy" GTK+-based version also available. The name "Wireshark 2 preview" is a bit confusing.
There was a "Wireshark 2 preview" in the 1.12 Windows installers up to 1.12.1.
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