You’re right OP, the system could use some flavor.
Katie: 1000% yes to all you have typed up here. It’s a wreck and a mess, and, yes, boring.
Yea, it’s asinine. But there are apparently just enough people who are looking for this very sort of experience. That’s the only way you can justify the lack of “philosophical” change and the further delving into what I consider to be idiocy. It is a very bizarre situation.