I can’t talk about how this game in particular is designed, but agree on oldschool point & click adventures having often nonsensical puzzles and solutions. I’m not a fan of that too. And critique is rightfully so. I just don’t now to what extend and if those are really softlocks or just getting stuck and not finding a solution. It’s like calling some online player cheater, just because it “looked like cheating”, as an analogy.

My point is, if this was a real big problem, then more people would probably talk about it. That’s where I come from.