...So really what you're saying is, you don't want to start planning out their futures until you know how to mold 'em into being most useful to you.

[Thank you, "Dietrich", nobody asked you, you pleasantly-smiling asshole.]

I mean, there's something to that, sure. It's not like you can just throw them out and start over if they don't go the way you want them to the first time, right?