Well, if you want *best* your party should be a Fighter, a Champion, a Bard, and a Rogue. So you all are already straying quite a ways away from *best* at this point.
But the core of the system is pretty forgiving of things like that. Maybe don't stress quite so much over picking what is mechanically optimal - because you will get very different answers from different people. Just watch...
At level 9 with cooperative nature you'll have a 95% chance to critically succeed on one for all with master diplo and a +2 item so no issues with landing that. As a lore oracle, most of your regular class feats should be spent on divine access, stealing good spells to effectively replace the divine spell list. Until you've filled yourself out with generically good spells or uncommon spells nobody else can get without permission your class feats are mostly locked up.
How is the Investigator been built? What does it do?
Continual Recovery is essential, Ward Medic is nice. Battle Medicine is very useful too. But not a must pick as you have Heal or a few potions. You may be the only one in your party with a good charisma score so I'd also be looking at intimidation or diplomacy skill feats. But perhaps the Investigator has some of that.
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If a spell only had two useful levels, like slow or fear, would you still sig it?
Only if the heightening level is going to be super stacked and you don't have another good target for your signature.
For example, for invisibility, you already have Dispel Magic at that level and level 4 can probably fit it, so it is probably better to learn it twice.
On the other hand, your level 3 list will probably have at least 2 of Slow, Haste, Heroism, and Roaring Applause. None of those heighten at all levels, but their heightened versions are really good, so pick one for heightened (one that you wouldn't mind "sacrificing a lvl 4 or 5 slot to cast in a pinch if possible) and just learn manually the others. I would not chose Haste, since the lvl 3 one can even be skipped looking at your party and the others still heighten at lvl 6.
In general, lvl 3 is a very important spell level for spontaneous casters. Personally, I would try to pick both Slow and Roaring Applause, heighten one of them and learn the heightened version of the other at 6.
why not just retrain the level 3 slow after level 13
level 3 slow still have value in combat but cast it with staff or scroll are much more convenient
I don't think that there is a staff with the spell and Slow is commonly casted several times in a row (specially if you are getting debuffs from somewhere else), having to draw the scroll every turn sucks a bit. It is still a valid strategy at high-ish levels, tho.
Slow is not available for personal staves, its only trait is Transmutation, and that one is specifically disallowed. Of course, a GM is always allowed to hand wave that, but I wouldn't count on it.
As for Talismanic Sage, I would just buy the low level retrieval prisms. The dedication is not that good tbh.
Also, once you are high level, why you wouldn't have it learnt at level 3? There are other options, but you can also scroll all those other spells and slow 3 is one of the ones you are going to cast the most.