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It's not about controlling them or not, it's about whether that would be possible without changing reality. The entire point of the Azure Tree was upgrading her so that she has the ability to straight out rewrite reality which would allow her to do things that would otherwise not be originally possible.

Without it, the only thing she can do is operate within cause-and-effect that already exists. It's quite possible that the 'result' of Joachim living does not actually exist period in the current cause-and-effect possibilities without first having to rewrite reality in some way.

In fact, the entire point of joining Maribel's plan in the first place was because out of all the possible realities that she read, it was apparently the only one with a decent future. That entire act itself should show you how limited she was in what she could do without first getting Maribel's assistance. That's actually an interesting scene(where it shows her right before she calls Maribel at the start of chapter 4) because your first time through you're like ??? since it's kind of cryptic but if you go back to it with the full story in mind it's like "ohhh, so that's what she was talking about."

After becoming the tree she most likely was going to rewrite reality into one where not only Joachim was alive, but also a bunch of other people. Like, that was the point

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