Would you have liked it if the benefactor was revealed to be the dessert wolf trying to knock off Scott’s pack and alienate Malia so she can kill her and steal her powers back? I think the whole thing about Meredith going crazy after listening to Peter could still work but I think dessert wolf just finds Meredith about to end it all, stops her and Meredith thinking she’s just bonding with someone spills all she knows and why she’s driven to madness, dessert wolf makes her create the Deadpoole and Meredith is basically her unwilling spy and she’s using her powers to knock off all the most powerful beacon hills supernaturals to become the most powerful and run the city.

I like this idea I think it would’ve made her the threat she was hyped up to be, and wouldn’t waste the Meredith reveal and would actually lead to something exciting

EDIT : I would also have Peter & Malia be the highest rated on the deadpoole and be the only two people with the exact same worth, everyone else on the list all have different numbers except those two, that would have the gang solve the mystery of why, and then they’d figure out they’re father & daughter, id have dessert wolf also be the one to locate Kate and teach her the bond between berserker & were-jaguar, in exchange she’d pull off the heist of Peter’s secret money to fund the deadpoole, at the end of the season Peter would kill Kate for good after being betrayed by the dessert wolf offering her up to Peter after stealing control of the berserkers from Kate in exchange for Peter leaving Malia alone with her, Peter would take the deal choosing wrath over his own daughter causing the rift between Peter & Malia that’s resolved in 6A with the ghost rider storyline, it’d be like a 12 step chess thing she’d be this evil mastermind coming to rid beacon hills of all powerful supernaturals so that she could rule as queen, in the end she would be defeated by the pack and Malia would absorb the rest of her power.