All of it helps the Digimon grow stronger so recruiting us seems like a smart way to ensure safety so it makes no sense to me as to why fiends like Lotusmon and Titamon outright attack us instead.

[ If everyone's personalities were easily manipulated before, who knows how easy it would be to sway them to fight for one of the other sides. ]

That's a good question. I was thinking of trying to get a certain know-it-all's attention once things settled down here to ask questions of that nature. Want to help?