I feel like you can do both these days, can’t you? Hades was one of the first to break this ground.

How long did you play BoI for if getting burned out on Hades after 40hrs was fairly quick?

Why is that weirder? The people writing scientific software are, by and large, less good at writing software than people who only specialize in software development. I’d expect there to tons of terrible engineering practices in an old code base like that

It’s optional for beating the games story, but required if you are trying for full (112%) completion.