One thing I find fascinating is how CatCat is willing to act on her headcannon and theories. It's a stark contrast to her dad who seems to only work on explicit facts and logic. I wonder if that's tied to whoever sabotaged him - he had no explicit evidence against them and no way to defend himself in the face of his burning reputation.
Just registered with me that this is similar to the distinction between Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes (the original characters) - Mycroft is supposedly even more brilliant than Sherlock, but he's far more cautious and careful about extending his deductions into the messiness of the real world. It's not a
perfect analogy, of course, but it's a fun one to recognise in another detective/mystery/investigation type story . . .
Also amusing that Maomao is always saying how much smarter her old man is, and how he'd have figured things out long before she managed to stumble on the answer (and to be fair, we do see that a few times in the story) - Sherlock Holmes always said similar things about Mycroft whenever he was mentioned, even when he was busy doing his best stereotypical impression of the inhumanly perfect inference machine. At least Maomao visibly stumbles a fair bit while she's figuring things out, though part of that is probably just how much of a rush she often is (how often is she desperately trying to find an answer in time to avoid catastrophe of some sort?)