The disparity between people's experiences could also have something to do with the types of readers they're used to going to. I have another reader besides Kate who is spot on accurate but she's mostly a Tarot reader so her information is really exact.. But it's not as intuitive. Kate feels energy and also reads the cards so the reason she might be cryptic sometimes is because she's describing a feeling as opposed to rattling off a definition of a card combination. I like both readers (as well as a few others) and they've all been accurate. It's just a style difference. Kate is definitely not a standard card reader though. If she was, it wouldn't be cryptic at all, it would be sort of just reading the cards. And yeah, she does need validation. It doesn't bother me but I know it bothers others. When she does have validation, she's rock solid, though. And you don't have to give her much info. Just let her know what the deal is if you know it. If you don't, just say "I don't know what that is" lol. It'll be something that might make sense later. But if that type of reading doesn't resonate with you as well, then she's just not for you. It sucks to waste the money on it but at least she's not like, $6.99 a minute.
You said it better than I could have, but yeah that's my experience too. And I agree, also, that you need to know what kind of reader a person is so you can set your expectations for the reading.
This last reading, the person I was asking about, she said something like "this person feels like they're not getting money they deserve, or that they should have a financial gain but aren't getting the pay off for in a situation, and it's really stressing them out" - and I said, actually it's because she is in the middle of fighting with a car dealership over a breach of warranty, the car is completely inoperable and they're refusing to fix it or buy it from her and she still owes like 9k on the car, so if it can't be fixed she just has to eat the rest of the car note since it won't sell for anything but scrap. And so that was what it was, she could tell it was an issue of money owed or deserved that she wasn't getting but couldn't put the detail in it, but I knew what that was. Then the car problem showed again later with a different deck, it was literally an upside down car card, but she knew enough about the situation to know what that was referencing then.
She's intuitive and an energy reader, so she interprets cards through that gift.