The world doesn't always "hold your hand." Objectives can be unclear, requiring you to actually talk to NPCs and piece together lore to progress.
And you realize: In the vast, chaotic, unscripted world of reality, you are the NPC. You have a loop. You have pathfinding issues. You are waiting for a player who never comes. Journeying in a World of NPCs -v1.0- -Nome-
Your primary goal is to fill your journal. The world doesn't always "hold your hand