Yeah, I realized a handful of seconds after I posted the profanity that it could have been taken as an insult, rather than an expression of my frustration, which was how I intended it to come out. Long enough that someone might have read it already, so editing it out felt like a cop-out.
Tone is forever an issue with online text-based forums.
Had I been more rational, I might have said something eloquent about how there are a variety of choices made in CDDA for “the sake of realism” which fail basic game design theory.
I was an amateur game designer decades ago, and read a fair few books on the subject. I’m sure the principles of game design have evolved since then, but the rules I studied back then still seem to apply in my mind.
I forget who wrote it, but one of the critical reads during that period for me was, “If it isn’t fun to do, don’t make players do it.” Trying to figure out how to make a process work falls into that category for me.
