Well, we haven't played since then, but we did get Intrigue. We just haven't opened it yet because we've been busy with other things.
Why Dominion? Well, because her best friend and her best friend's husband love it and they played with her and she liked it. She likes how it changes all the time. So I don't think it is necessarily that she doesn't like having to think, but rather she doesn't like playing with someone who is a lot better. And really, I haven't really played much better. Sure, I read most of the strategy articles and learned a lot, but when I try to put it in practice, I seem lost. A lot of the strategies depend on cards that aren't in the base set. And while I can understand a strategy in concept, figuring out the details of how to implement it, which parts to get at what time and in what situations, is very much beyond me still. I think it was just the idea of me getting obsessed with my latest obsession (and thereby causing me to get really good at it) that she is afraid of.
I got Goku, I mean Goko, and have been playing the campaign mode against the AI lately. I've read that the AI is supposed to be terrible, but I've had a really tough time beating them on some kingdoms. Like the one where there are 3 AI players and there are Witches and Militia everyone is attacking everyone all the time. It took me many tries to win and I still probably don't understand why that strategy resulted in me winning over the other tries. But I think this is a good way for me to become familiar with how the cards interact. I did this same thing with the PC version of Catan: Cities and Knights and at first they beat me all the time, but over time I've finally developed a play style where I win most of the time.