it gives better experience to me actually. It doesn't give you the best ending right at first playthrough.I could see that in a meta 4-D chess sort of way: Make the puzzle unfair to the average user with "hints" that are purely subjective, as my end goal is to make them replay it.
Of course, I think that's doubtful and still poor game design in the end. But touche.
Many games do that right? at least in the past. You have to replay it to get the best ending because the requirement to get best ending is too opaque without walkthrough, and most players wouldn't satisfy that requirement.
Not sure if that's deliberate or not but, not getting the best ending on Ian's book career is more immersive to me.
If Ian is that good, he would have won it instead of Holly.
He would've wrote it before Holly wrote hers.
He hasn't even wrote the fckn book.