Natalie's move was still a good one in the moment - she had no way of knowing a jury buyback was going to happen, especially in a season where there were already two opportunities to return.
No one in this season is playing a fantastic game. Oddly, Natalie's probably the most classic version of a good BB game, but extremely rough around the edges and she'd never win because she doesn't have the knowledge to know how to articulate her game at the end during F2 speeches.
James is playing for AFP and nothing more. Corey is a goat.
Nicole is playing a good rat game like Andy. Paul's game isn't bad, but terribly overrated. His stans on twitter are insane. Not one single "genius move" of his has worked out. He's basically playing a rat game too like Nicole.
Victor is playing a very basic and dumbed-down version of Hayden's game, which started the trend of people just trying to comp win their way to the end. And Hayden basically made it impossible to be a Type A male houseguest and get far since they usually now make asses out of themselves and get taken out by the women, only for the Type B male houseguests to swoop in at the end and win (Steve winning.....this still hurts).
Paul/Victor are both idiots if they take either to F2. Victor deserves to win if he cuts Paul at F4. He should try to take Natalie/Nicole to F3 since they both dislike one another and like him.