Yes I feel like I'm bad at actually communicating my issues clearly and just tend to waffle. LLTQ made cause and effect very obvious in a lot of situations. Which also meant on playthroughs were you are doing something else entirely you are learning stuff thats useful for when you come back. Give land a way Banion makes a comment, Marry off Brin deal with Banion trying to imply a relationship between you embarrass him with already being engaged or outwit him.
In this game because so little of the cause and effect is made clear it ends up incentivising me to optimise what's the point of figuring out which of like 10 checks/decisions has caused their opinion of me to drop? Who cares about the wider networks of who's friendly with who and who's an enemy when it's difficult to keep track of and ultimately not necessary for the goals of 17 votes and not dying.
I kind of wish there was some kind of presenter characters like a news channel that could give some kind of insight into the reactions to our actions like they were covering the run up to an election. Like it cost a social point every round to listen in on but it would keep you up to date on things happening in the wider galaxy.