More likely to be surprised; plus I think only the ranger picks up creatures who are camoflauged early.
Basically though once you make a certain gadget that can cast detect secrets, and another that does x-ray, between those two you can turn search mode off, so you won't need it forever.
Also you can grab Sparkle as an RPC and let her do the autoscouting early on, she's a good early RPC for ranger-less parties, worth making a trip to the Umpani camp first thing post-monastery.
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