I’ve been stuck on this brutally difficult Reverse Collapse stage which is a nighttime stealth mission on a sprawling, labyrinthine map full of unique features and art assets, cryptic riddles and puzzles and several optional bonus challenges, and it turns out there is a different exit already open like 20 feet from where you start so if you want you can just be like nope I don’t have time for this and walk out.

I think what happened is the devs got very enthusiastic designing this level and eventually realized it had gotten way too strange, time-consuming and complex but by that point they were so in love with their creation that they couldn’t bring themselves to scrap it or dumb it down. Their solution of making it completely optional is honestly kind of genius