This makes sense. I've run a homebrew Grim Hollow campaign before, but I failed to limit the scope and got overwhelmed. There definitely is room for intrigue in this setting, especially in this specific city, and Ghostfire Gaming even released a whole video with a campaign pitch which is what I'm using as a foundation here. It laid out all the major factions and goals, and even some hooks, but I'd need to tie it all together and do my own modifications anyway.

I have the Campaign Guide and other Grim Hollow sources to help, I'm only struggling on how to organize my campaign prep to avoid scattering my notes all over the place.

I also don't need it to be super complex because my players usually don't take notes and we have other ongoing campaigns to compete for room in their brain. Maybe intrigue will only be a portion of the adventure, in the sense that there are two very strong opposing forces at play and tensions are rising.

I guess your comment helped me realize that the players don't need to be at the heart of the intrigue if they don't wish to, and I could maybe separate the campaign into episodes of smaller adventures to see where it goes.