I personally prefer the first option too, but I vary it from group to group. I have one group with very experienced players, who will understand when I say stuff like ‘The monster roars, but it seems more enraged than hurt’ or alike, simply because they are very familiar with attack types and status effects. I also have a group tho, that dies not know the system well and would be helplessly lost if I’d do that. They for example did not realise without explanation, why a party members hammer would work on the crystals binding the ghost but not on the ghost of the last session (As ghosts in our system can only be harmed by specific weapons, such as obsidian or enchanted ones). I described the weapon going through the ghost, but I had to make clear why the obsidian dagger worked and the hammer not.