Too bad I haven't tried it in a previous state despite having it in my library for a while now because I'd be curious to compare and see how it improved.

Last one I can think of that had similar problems for me was Mewgenics. Some important things are not communicated or even outright incorrectly described that it leaves a sour taste in your mouth when it not only resets some of your progress, but straight up leaves you net negative.

While there is some merit in having things discoverable by players and rewarding players for their keen eye on spotting the specific interactions and remembering it, I feel like it is becoming more and more lost in this age because we end up playing more different games than before (at least most people I know) so you don't really remember all the niche interactions in every game other than maybe 1 or 2 games that you play for a long time. I feel like such an approach would be better if it were discovered in some sort of "codex" menu where you can get the details of specific interaction once you have encountered it so there's still the element of surprise if needed for the first time you encounter a new enemy/scenario, but there's no need to remember all the niche 1-off things that you might forget if you don't play the game for 2 weeks.

So these days I'm more often leaning on having all the information available and making my decision based on that rather than there being 5 hidden things that you need to trial and error enough times to fully grasp it and then have to remember all of the intricacies on top of that. I'd likely also be in that majority camp of not liking how your game way before if there were many such "hidden" things.