Hm, i appreciate your dissecting of the situations - i was kind of implying that you would interpret them as if you were the "you" of the story...but it doesn't matter in fact- you sorted out the most "common" things one would expect as an option. The difficulty everyone has to face, no matter the character - a reaction, even with the hands off approach( which you subtely favour?)
What i want to get across is that, in my opinion there is a threshold and a limit to every faction on how much conflicts of interests/screw ups/ backstabbing it can handle without being powergamey or blatantly facepalming. By no means i stated anywhere that i want things black or white...common sense is the magic word.
And to Thyrs question: no, it is not an exhaustive list, there are many more gems to find- i simply started with the sairs and went from branch to branch until i finished my coffee