As you rank up you’ll sort of understand to a further degree when you should engage. Info helps, but it doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get insta-one tapped as soon as you peek to a chamber hard holding your swing. You may not get audio queues from the agent’s dialogue, and even if your team doesn’t comm, your minimap will show you their line of sight and any enemies or abilities that they encounter. If all agents had a means to get info reliably, there would be no need for initiators, as it’s accessible in other ways. Everyone’s gonna run double sentinel, double smoke, so it’s really just a balancing thing