Saved it to drafts, never to see the light of day.

TL;DR of That Post

Game devs have a habit of doing things "just because", without real intent behind them. And I'm a sucker for when creatives are inventive with their given artistic medium to get the most out of it under their constraints.

There are totally understandable reasons for some of these decisions, like time / resource restrictions (a game has to release).

That said, it often seems to be more a lack of consideration, lack of unifying direction (or inversely a unifying direction without purpose), or a cultural tendency to lean into dogma like the pursuit of high-fidelity, "rule of cool", or "other games did it this way".