Yeah, I mean, the bunch of random good and bad things part of ta'veren is not particularly interesting to me, though it's occasionally amusing background flavor. What I like is the stuff where Thom Merrilin is minding his own business and all of a sudden he's all sucked up in the adventure, for example. Those are the effects of ta'veren I'm interested in stories about.

Meanwhile, I tend to see the "and now this random minor character who we need as an ally will fortuitously decide to ally with us, phew." stuff as more a dynamic of self-fulfilling prophecy than anything mystically driven. I read those scenes as being about the heady feeling of being a nobody who gets caught up in interacting with someone famous and important and impressive and does something they never thought they would. And I like how ta'veren sort of works through naturalistic mechanics like that.