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For these you are able to pick out worse moves than the optimal from them, but that's not actually the same thing as "play like a beginner, okay now play like an intermediate". These things are still openish questions and if nothing else there's a lot of room for improvement in tools to help you learn and review games.

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You can make KataGo play moves that keep the score roughly even since it has a trained score head, e.g. kataJigo [1]. This will keep the game even to your level, a nice way to train.

[1] https://github.com/sanderland/katrain#ais

I'm not sure that's a good idea at all for training, though it is a really neat trick.

For training you really want your good moves to be rewarded and your bad moves pointed out, but if the AI just plays up or down to match what you do instead, there's no signal getting back to you on how you're doing.

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