It works okay for a while, but eventually it loses the plot. The storylines are usually pretty generic and washed out.
Shit, that's where my sex drive went. Can I have it back please?
You don't need reproducible builds. You can get by if you trust whoever compiled it, like your distro's maintainers or the pidgin developers.
Hiiii 😽
3.5e just had some much room to explore. Yeah, some parts sucked or didn't make sense, but I think that really led to some interesting characters and fun moments in games. I haven't played 5e much precisely because it's so smooth in comparison.
Dwarf Fortress.
Dependency injection is so much worse. Oh, hey, where'd this value come from? Giant blob of opaque reflection code.
Snaps just aren't ready yet.
That said, there are cases of players noticing emergent behaviour in games! For example: https://twitter.com/JoelBurgess/status/1428008041887281157
It's 2024. It's rude not to jam your tongue in there!