You HAVE control over what it does. If YOU as an individual don't, its because you don't know what you're doing. Other than a random buff or -Na coming out on occasion when you underestimate your current health percentages, then the automaton is almost completely predictable and rigid in its control (hell, even then it is completely simple to predict what he'll do when you have Slow, Poison, and Blind effect on you.). If you adopted a previously, expertly trained dog that performed given tasks rigidly and to the T within range of solidified, numerical classifications its not the dogs fault that you don't know that hand sign X means sit and hand sign Y means for him to come. Its not his fault that he does something you didn't want while you're giving the wrong commands -- and that's the reality of Puppetmaster. A lot of the time (not all, the AI is far from infallible), it's the player's fault ended up face first on the ground, not the auto's.