Oatmeal Agitante

Interactive fiction experimental principle: The player should never be incentivized to skim text

Examples of established skim-worthy patterns: error messages, sentences that tell you your location or other basic information

There is an unacknowledged skill in playing parser games- efficiently skimming text while holding another problem in your head

Another related problem is the tendency of the player's haphazard traversal of the gamespace to create a long repetitive lexical record

This is one of the reasons I find free exploration somewhat of an anti-pattern in games. It can become deeply tedious.

The other reason is it sacrifices authorial control for no substantial return.