Yeah Atris as Traya is a terrible idea. That character should (optionally) join your party when you first visit Polar Plateau (ex. when you agree with her during conversation she decides to guide you with her wisdom). A lots of interesting tensions between Kreia and Atris on the way... old and new teacher.

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The idea of having two Darth Trayas is absolutely confounding. I don't see how it enhances the game. Kreia is most obviously set against the force.

As early as the trial of the returning Exile, we can see that Atris is unforgiving and too easily swayed by her emotions. And she alone of the Council thinks the Exile has fallen to the dark side, though the other masters percieve the truth more fully. Perhaps, like Kreia before her, she had the wisdom to see that the Jedi Code didn't really cover all the bases.

 

I also get the distinct impression that Atris deliberately leeked the information about the upcoming Jedi meeting on Katarr to the Sith in an effort to flush them out, entirely without the knowledge of the rest of the Council and apparently without considering the lives she placed in jeopardy. Sounds dark side to me.

 

When that fails, she lets it out that there is an Exiled Jedi still running around somewhere in the galaxy. The fact that the Harbinger gets rerouted to pick up the Exile, and that Disciple knows the way into the Polar Academy, leads me to believe that Disciple and those like him searching throughout the Republic are working for someone in contact with Atris. An interesting idea when you consider that Carth doesn't die, even in the DS ending to KotOR.

 

As for the holocrons, she probably first gathered them in order to learn of the Sith, "know thy enemy." Problem is, the Holocrons aren't just recording devices, they store the persona of the recorder, it seems, and apparently can even manipulate the Force. So in order to unlock all their knowledge, you'd have to appease the holocron in order to wheedle any information out of it.