a) Without her advisors she would be a slave by now.
b) When she listens to her advisors she gets the wrong advice most of the time!
Well, I have to say I don’t agree with either opinion.
In my opinion she’d already be queen now if she hadn’t listened to her advisors. But most likely, the "Queen of Ashes". She is rather impulsive and always ready to strike out against her enemies, which probably is good when you’re at war, but bad if you aim to "build a world that’s different from the shit one they’ve always known", as Jon put it.
She always has a good nose for gaining power – and on that account, she’s better than her advisors –, but she also has the tendency to be ruthless and cruel, and in those moments, it’s good that she has advisors who calm her down. That’s the way I see it.
Daenerys ought to have a word with Arya (provided both of them survive the fight against the Army of the Dead). Arya’s capable of conducting a surgical strike by sneaking up on Cercei and killing her. Or at least, to try it. There’s still a Mountain in her way…
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