>>96166944
Animator (and others that can do the same) creations are not connected to you. They lack your minions' advantages, the ability to sustain on essence and the perks. However, this lack of connection is also the greatest advantage as they also lack your minions' disadvantages, the drawbacks. This means that they can be fine in sunlight even if you have Nocturnal, be competent spies even if you have Monster Menagerie, be impartial even if you have Racism, lack an Expiration Date, etc. They are a substantial boon to any build and invaluable to drawback heavy ones.

>>95962074
Technically correct that divination isn't reliable, but divination is not the only way to divine... Future knowledge from Yourself isn't divination. Calculation isn't divination. Maybe there are types of divination that work on certain types of blind spots too, but that is unknown because the mechanics of divination are unexplained.

So, a way to ensure that I can reliably predict how I can solve tasks, bypassing blind spots, is to pull future knowledge of the tasks' environment, people, the targets' characteristics, and other factors, and calculate viable courses of action using them and information of my own capabilities.