To be honest, I was kind of interested in why Garenhuld was so... innovation-averse, but since we don't seem like we'd get an answer for that by just asking Poptart what's going on there, yeah, let's ignore this world and go all-in on getting as many skill-ups as we can. Combat Precog, Style Bonuses, Hit's Time Stop, the whole enchilada. If Yammar is complaining about our inability to compensate for our lack of power the moment tricks don't help, then we power-up and get more tricks, to the point the entirety of the rest of our race becomes a non-issue. Clearly, we can't count on them to do anything, so we need to get strong enough to do everything ourselves. Like Goku.
I really think the pacifistic thing is screwing us over though. There comes a point where your opponent is simply not going to stop if you ask nicely, or even if you seal off their powers, and Dazarel seems to have been in that camp the whole time. Dandeer, with a plan that boils down to 'Mind-rape everyone into loving and serving me.' seems to have also crossed that line. Our only solution is to get strong and esoteric enough that they simply can't stop us, even with a Spirit Bomb. Did we tell anyone else how to do that, by the way? Because I can see some of the smarter puppets being concerned that their only hope of beating an enemy that would ordinarily require SS2 has left an empty shell of a body behind and disappeared.