Apologies for the late response
That makes sense, yeah. Though I was more referring to there being an entire scene where you discover Rhianna and Odenval's plans before they put them into motion, whereas there's no way to learn/discover the plans that certain characters have in store for others. Makes sense for a character like Matthias to have all his plans well hidden, but I definitely feel like, for example Elami would be very much open about her distaste for the way that Magnificence treats her sons, especially if she was talking to a Lewis/Lois who has managed to build up some trust with her in the past. Therefore making it easier to predict that she'd target Magnificence.
Just my two cents in that regard. If I had to summarize, it currently feels less like "deducing enemy plans and working around them" and more like stumbling into a scene you had no idea was about to happen, seeing a character you were planning to work with get TF'd, and then either dealing with that or reloading a save to avoid that specific TF from happening. Just a bit of a spit-ball question here, but would there be anything stopping Lewis/Lois from just spending their own influence to "undo" a transformation ? In the sense of "transforming them into something close to their original self". Cause I can think of a lot of scenarios where that would lead to some extremely interesting storylines