Game design requires idealism, the ability to pick out what’s important and depict that, rather than try to depict all of a situation.
Quotes by Lewis Pulsipher
A major part of good design is avoiding situations where a user can easily screw up. “User error” often means, poor design.
Games and many other things in life: one person’s “punitive” is another’s challenge.
There is no magic pill that you can take, Matrix-like, to let you know the rules.
Furthermore, many rules readers today are lazy. They try to read the rules as they play the first game. How many sets of instructions of ANY complexity are going to survive such an ordeal? The worst of these folks are in the “tl;dr” camp (“too long; didn’t read”).