You are right. It is a HUGE change of habit. Exciting and scary!
Just explored the possibilities. It helped to configure the Person CardView to be more “selfish”. (The “selfish” Person CardView in my People Category no longer lists the immediate relatives, nor their Events. There is a less “unselfish” default of the Person CardView that shows all these omitted things under the Relationships CardView.)
Now I can just use the Graph View to navigate to the Person and click the Person Navigator icon to see this: