LOTR: Fate of the Fellowship - Do you feel in control?

I’ve been debating on getting FotF for a while. What’s held me back is the experience my wife and I had with Pandemic was it sometimes felt like you had an impossible scenario, particularly when the infection shuffle slugged you with multiple chaining outbreaks right at the start.

With the dice roll mechanic often deciding the impact of the AI and with the mitigation options the game gives you, do you feel like you have a level of control every game? Or does the randomness or just bad luck shuffles make games feel impossible sometimes?

We get limited time to play games and playing something that could be a complete wash without us having any agency to have a chance doesn’t sound appealing.