I still question your applause of Elaida. Elaida wouldn't have even tried to make something out of Else. She only cares about women approaching her strength! Which makes her a much bigger idiot than Siuan.

Either way, what matters is that Egwene has reversed this utterly idiotic trend of the Tower's (and Elayne has set the ball rolling with linked, but extremely weak, women doing really useful stuff), and Siuan has realized strength means squat, and is benefiting from it.