there’s too many discussions of this to make a search terribly easy … in a nutshell, no is the answer to the main question, whichever way you look at it you are always and only determining whether a trig is on or off - that’s it
as mentioned it doesn’t need to be normal trigging trigs, nor on the grid, there are tonnes of creative uses, but at it’s core every TRC just determines whether a given trig plays or not, irrespective of its kind/position
TRCs linked to trigless trigs can be nudged around, so they can be close to fake it seemingly happening on the normal trig … see image here for ideas