Why do you call molinism a fudge factor, and can free will be reconciled with God's foreknowledge?

In my mind, the answer is that I do not reconcile them, and I think anybody who tries is going to falter on one side or the other, like trying to balance a pencil on its point. I do not think it is something we can reconcile; we just have to live with the fact that God can know all things ahead of time and still give us a legitimate, uncoerced, unforced free will, a real free will, period. If you go further than that you will have big problems. Go back to God Himself: the church teaches four times that God was not forced to create, which means God is not a determined being, He has a free will and could decide to create or not create. So we have to hold both, that God knows everything ahead of time and that man has a legitimate free will uninfluenced by any divine power, and only God knows how those fit together, like glove over hand. Molinism is just another fudge factor, something made up to make it fit. And I find Thomas's position a little frightening, because when it comes to balancing the two he is always talking about the predestinarian side and hardly ever the free will side; Ludwig Ott says the same thing in Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, that Thomas was much more on the predestination side. So that is as far as I can take it.