The politics of it all is setting up nicely. This is after all the story of Targaryen civil war.
Daemon's family is down a mother and the oldest fiercest dragon has no rider and he's in Pentos. Rhaeynra is leading her own family, while having to deal with her king consort and his issues, while also raising 3 kids, trying to be "heir", moving to Dragonstone, and avoiding the inevitable of her father and the power struggle that will come...plus dealing with Alicent.
Visarys needs a new Hand, literally and figuratively, while his kids are growing up, but Alicent is pretty much running the family while trying to keep her husband the king "healthy and rested". And Larys just destroyed his family, putting himself in a perverse and influential position in Kings Landing, besides the Queen.
The time changed messed with people and that's fine, but it also distracted people from the changing dynamics of each family involved so far in the series.