Any plot points you didn't figure out until much later in life?

The only reason I ask is because I was watching Frankie Lollia's FFVIII videos today and only just realised that Time Compression is one big metaphor for loneliness. Ultimecia is early-to-mid game Squall, taken to the extreme. She wants to make a world where only she can exist and Squall spent much of the game pushing everyone away. Squall gets lost in Time Compression and is all alone and it's portrayed like a horrible nightmare. That might have been obvious for some people but I only just got it.

Anything else you only figured out, many years after playing the game?