Yeah, it makes it really hard since a lot of Edgic has been about throughlines. But then again, the throughlines are still there. Maryanne's was all about showing oddballs can still win, it was mentioned over and over that she was "an outsider" and etc. Dee did consistently mention playing for her family or whatever. (A bit weak but sure). Erika at least reminded us she was going to go from lamb to lion.
One of my biggest arguments against Dee last season was that she
consistently
received no follow-up on plots from the previous episode, even if they were really important to her. For example, she had a huge rivalry with Sifu, but the episode after he was voted out - I was sure if she won there'd be at least
one
confessional saying "So Sifu got voted out, that's good since he thought I voted for him / since I've been against him from day one" etc but she had nothing. Similarly after she voted out Kaleb, no follow-up, she's just not in the next episode, even though he called her out directly at tribal. I was like, surely you'd take the easy opportunity to give her a recap confessional saying "Last night, we voted out ____" at least one of these times, just to make sure casual viewers remember her? But they didn't.
...tl;dr, edgic is tough. I wish Naomi was still around to just tell me who wins.