I would hope that starting this temple brings Cait a new perspective. She ran away from her temple, that is the entire reason she is in the Marches. I wouldn't say she ever ran away from her religion though, I think she just didn't like the corrupt practices of her temple. This does give some leeway in why she would jump on creating her own temple. I personally find it boring, but it isn't necessarily unrealistic character motivations if she only has an internal influence. Salwah certainly isn't going to go against her.
The only character that would have a meaningful outside perspective from the temple is the PC, but they are indifferent and have no opinion on the matter.
After Keros doing the whole age up thing apparently on purpose I have no reason to trust the other Gods. While Keros is the trickster god, I would have figured it would be considered evil or a dick move to not inform a person of the consequences of you fulfilling his request in good faith. If you were trying to trick him, I could understand it as him getting back at you.
I don't hate Cait either, but I don't love her either. Mostly just bored with her direction of development. I dislike Salwah but I think it is less Salwah's fault and more Tob's specific exposition dump way of delivering lore building through character talk options.
I think the less is more when it comes to exposition dumps, but I can also understand why expanding the lore would be important. I think there are better ways to do it though, at least while maintaining the complete lack of PC input to avoid writing the variability. Actually visiting a place like Jassira would be possibly the best way, experiencing first hand how these people act. This is probably why Tobs does those dungeons in which you play out the content as another character. It is an easy way to give an excuse to teleport the player to a different time and context without doing the work of creating a whole new zone or worrying about time travel.
That takes a lot of work though, so I think a better way to do it with minimal work difference would be to have books you can read. Sure, still exposition dumps, but at least effort doesn't have to go into the riveting PC dialogue of "Oh." You can't give opinions to a book in real life, so it puts the player into the mind set that the player character shouldn't be giving opinions. With the current system being dialogue with a character, it makes it easy to notice how little opinion and indifferent the PC is.
They have made it clear that the PC is meant to be a character and has opinions outside of what the player feels. Understandable, but the PC is uninteresting and boring.
Which brings me to my new theory: the PC is actually just like River and was created in story to be at the Frost Hound. They lack personality because they aren't actually a person, and their creator had to decide with limited time on giving them an interesting personality or super fast learning capabilities.
I would like to say I don't hate the Kitsune, but I've also been avoiding Kinu's content (I haven't even played the first quest). At this point I think the only reason I would give them a second chance is if we can influence them to revolt against their old country. The reality is that the only thing that is going to happen with them is Kinu doing Kinuy things and finally becoming so powerful she is able to transend the 4th wall and become the protoganist of the whole game.
