Anandi's strengths became her weaknesses depending upon what they wanted to tell through their story.
Anandi's weakness is her loved ones.She loses her reasoning when she feels that she is going to lose her loved ones.
Her fear for her child's safety all those years ago made her run like headless chicken which resulted in her getting lost her child being snatched by Akheraj.
This time also she feared for her children's safety but knew better this time.It was heart breaking to see her relief on seeing a police vehicle turn into despair.
She thought she was doing the right thing by running towards police vehicle unlike last time where she lost her sense of direction.
As for post leap I think in their zeal to tell the story of Jhalra characters they did a lot of injustice to Anandi's story by not giving enough footage on screen.I refuse to believe that Anandi didn't do enough to find her daughter going by what I have seen of Anandi's character in seven years.
In order to keep Akheraj Vs Anandi for the closing down scenes of BV Ver 2.0 and then by wanting to keep Mangala's character relevant to the story they came up with episodes filled with Mangala's manipulative ways.Made Akheraj return from the land of dead in the most ridiculous way.
While it is possible to believe that Jagya may not have been successful in killing Akheraj in the desert it was ridiculous how they tried to make the characters believe that the body belonged to Akheraj.
There was no need to stretch this custody battle for so long.In fact this custody battle was the one which put off the viewers.
Others may have realised Mangala's intentions before Anandi did.While Anandi being Anandi still looking for the most ideal solution where she her daughter and Mangala all three would come out as winners in this battle for custody.
In order to make way for drama they made Anandi impractical by keeping the truth from Shivam.
Though they managed to raise Anandi to the heights she belonged to in the end it came a little too late.
But all in all I'm glad that they are putting Anandi where she belonged before sending her off.
There are some characters Anandi Shiv and Bhairon which didn'thave a single trait that can be used to advance the story so they made use of the inbuilt weaknesses of these characters when they wanted to tell the story.
While Jagya and Dsa's characters are largely positive characters with a few splashes of grey which they exaggerated at times to tell the story
While Mangala is predominantly grey shaded character which had a few positive traits
Harki is negative and the reasons for her negativity are well established so is Kundan's character
While using the inbuilt flaws in the character for story purpose is completely alright but at times they stretched them too far which made the story intolerable at times.