Yeah but the people using the transfers can do those confusing moves as well. The only difference is that they have more ways to get the zone, so that argument of unpredictability of transfers fails. It's the player that plays predictable, not the transfers.
I always try to:
1. lose chase
2. then use the fastest and usually most obvious way to zones
I don't think that transfers are that bad if you can actually do them like 8/10 times and you don't them over and over again. The worst thing you can do is trying to get one zone using 1 or 2 tricky but known tfs (for example in LA, the zone over that purple thingy or that zone in airport on lamps). I can get key in most cases. I know where the person is going to be at some point when he/she do that tf. Then you just need good timing. That's lame.