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I think things would have been very different.
I think he would've caught her off guard because she was still in denial of her feelings for him, and she might have initially rejected him that night, or been so confused/flustered she gave him no real answer. But learning of his feelings earlier would've also then got her thinking about her own sooner. She'd immediately start looking at their friendship through an 'wow - Angel might actually have feelings for me' lens and I think that'd prompt a much faster discovery of her own. I think hers definitely already existed at that point, she just wasn't ready to confront them/believe 'Buffy's Angel' could have romantic feelings for her.
No Groo means she probably wouldn't have left to go on vacation. Cordy being around might have changed things with Connor's kidnapping, etc.
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I concur.
The full confession would have mattered little at that moment as I don't doubt Cordelia.exe would have stopped working and she would have walked away dismissively just the same though perhaps with a bit of a hysterical laugh out of sheer disbelief. That's what I picture at least.
Groo's interference just happened to be the worst possible excuse to create that roadblock.
Without Groo, however, Angel's confession would have forced Cordelia to consider him an option and come to recognize and accept her own feelings for him much sooner and on her own.
Simultaneously, Angel would have been deeply hurt by her hysterical laughter even though it wasn't meant as ridicule and started avoiding her creating an interesting conflict when she comes to terms with her feelings and tries to approach him about it.
Although this is all assuming Angel wouldn't have wussed out. I wouldn't put it past him, especially with how he was tripping all over himself from the beginning lol.