I can see your points on what you've said and they do make sense, especially when you have a variety of personalities your MC can take, and I 100% agree with your point about it being a childish choice to go back, I wanted to say that I felt the Plushie path really showed us that but didn't want my initial post to be too long.
I think that may be it, I know that there are certain choices to show that our MC *is* quite intelligent but for the situation they're in and at the age they are it does seem a little bit advanced, for example; βNo doctor would be reckless enough to carry poison into a camp without an antidote. I may be small, but Iβm not stupid. And you may not care about others, but you wouldn't risk your own life with something that dangerous.β - There's nothing wrong with that on it's own, it's a great piece of dialogue, I just think that from the way we know the MC talks, and that they're only really used to speaking to their family that it's like you said, a little too advanced, only in the way it's phrased really, I could see them saying the same thing but in a slightly less clear/mature way? If that makes sense xD
But yes! I will absolutely still be following, I adore this IF and have tons of positive things to say about it, this was just one or two that I was wondering about that's all <3