Oh don’t tease us, tease us, tease us so…
The cards we all consider “useless” in our frustration aren’t actually useless. A useless card would offer no reward or story advancement in return for spending an action. The Aunt and the Embassy card can lower your nightmares which is pretty darn useful when you’re desperate to do so, for example, and connection cards provide saleable items, not expensive ones but still ones able to be grinded to a high return. They can be frustrating when you’re waiting for another card, yeah, but they’re not at all useless and they’re not put there solely to clog p your deck.