It's funny, you don't notice how RJ wrote about the One Power until someone else writes about it. We've only seen two chapters so maybe it's unfair to judge, but there's something missing in what I've read.

The One Power is almost absent from chapter 1, so I'll leave that alone. Rand does mention that his men are weaving things outside.

In the Prologue, Graendal experiences the Power in a way I'm not accustomed to. RJ gives the impression that the Power is always part of a channeler's experience of reality - they comment on its presence and absence. For instance, Graendal remarks on the fact that a gateway is being opened next to her. She doesn't remark on the fact that she can sense nothing, or that she is surprised that a gateway is suddenly there. Maybe she's used to being summoned by Moridin by now, but all the Forsaken get irritated when they don't sense the opposite power and this really would be a first.

Graendal doesn't grab on to saidar when the gateway opens, like all the hysterically paranoid Forsaken do. It could have been Rand for all she knew. Then again, we don't know when she grabbed saidar for the whole chapter - because she suddenly weaves Air and Water to change the temperature in Moridin's fortress. She doesn't comment on the glow around Mesaana, or the lack of glow, or if she released saidar at any stage. She doesn't comment on Demandred and not knowing what he's up to with saidin, or Moridin and the saa, or the True Power.

Now, I don't feel like an angry reaction to this post - because you can show examples from every Forsaken chapter where they aren't thinking about these things all the time. However, I just got the feeling that Graendal never thought about any of this once, or we as readers weren't informed of what she was doing with her ability. It's a really small thing, but it was consistently part of RJ's writing, especially around the Forsaken. I just hope Brandon doesn't make the mistake of putting in the Power because he 'must', as in every scene with a channeler must have obligatory mention of something. The Power is meant to be part of a channeler's life as surely as their hands are, and their reality seems different to a non-channeler's.