The argument you're making for Cersei I would say applies more to Tywin. He actually saw all his moves as securing the Lannister name. For Cersei, proximity to power was really just a means to power in itself and more specifically to cover her being able to do what she really wanted, which is fuck her brother. She and Jaime couldn't have pulled that off without the status that keeps folks from asking too many questions.
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