Going to have to disagree with this kind of reasoning. First off the main reason that Bill had issues empathizing with people was due to his shit childhood and having a relationship with his first family that was so bad it was implied to have been worse than Stan's relationship with his own family at it's worst.
Gonna Veto your disagreement, mostly because it doesn't matter how good or bad Bill's original childhood was
Much more important is his state of mind before he was reborn and that was that of an insane sadistic dreamdemon who only respected beings that were more powerful then him like the Time Baby or AXOLOTL
And as we have seen in the current chapters, it is that while Bill likes his family for the unconditional love the give him, he cannot empathize with them that is why he seeks to learn these things through observation, which is why he was confused by the ant's, who held no familial love towards each other
That is why I think that both, being able to see souls and being able to see into a person's past would allow Bill to better understand people, much more importantly humans
As it allows him to draw comparisons and learn why the people behave as they do
Here Bill is being raised by a loving family and the QM themselves pointed out that Bill was going to turn out much better because of it.
No, you misunderstood the QM
This is not a better Bill but a redeemed Bill
And that does not make him a person that can emphasize with others, just not an insane antagonist that seeks to destroy remnant
Second getting a power just for a specific situaitons seems like it's just setting ourselves up to be shot in the foot long term. I mean there are probably several ways we can learn about the plot without being caught unaware. Like say getting the powers that let's us see souls and semblances which would let us see Ozpin's soul is abnormlan including being made of multiple people.
That is rich given that your choice is a trait whose ability is not quite clear and whose usefulness in any situation is questionable at best
Nevermind that you misunderstood the point that I was making
First of all, the Build is more about getting Bill a sense of empathy, by making him learn more about people, even those who are just random strangers to him and thus getting himself emotionally involved with those people
Second point is not 'getting into the plot' which is for the first three seasons about beacon but in finding out that Ozpin is magical, something which we probably wouldn't find out on our own otherwise unless get lucky with mindreading, which is kinda important if we wish to prevent stuff like Cinder gaining the complete Fall Maiden
The third point are the obvious advantages such as being able to see the enemies semblance and getting intel on enemy actions
All good things come in sets of three.
That is a good line of thinking
