1) It is, but it unfortunately answers many things that Trick cannot, such as Student of Anatomies and Bayushi Shoju. The only meta threat that runs Let Go is Crabbits, which you can trade Censure for or use Tadaka to scope out to still force a stick [continue reading]. Trading cloud for Calling in Favors is often very favorable for you, so I'm fine with that and of course the same point applies if you really need one to stick (though you cannot censure it if Shoju just hit the board.) I don't really care about cloud sticking in the lion matchup usually so if they just trade to remove it that's fine.

2) The character balance of the deck is on point, I don't feel I need more cheap shugs than what is already in the deck.

3) Space, mostly; but also because I tend to defend City of the Rich Frog more early on and then Shameful of course, so seeing an early DoP was not as vital as other options in conflict. When the deck ran Upholding Authority instead, 3 DoP was nice because I had 3 provinces I was perfectly fine trading a break for. Now it's down to 2 and one of the provinces I want to keep alive will always be attacked until it breaks.