If you can always predict what's going to happen though then the plot is pretty simple and familiar. I think the best case is when you're surprised but it seems obvious in retrospect.

It's really nice to see someone other than me voice that irritation. I never really got into mysteries for that reason. The very few I picked up seemed to tend towards random twists that would have been commendable had I any way to have ever possibly arrived at that solution. Probably others like the Aha moment, but it felt unfair