@vincew
My thoughts on the issue are many and varied.

Your question seems primarily to have two concerns:

1) Players metagaming and optimizing knowledge and mechanics to “beat” scenarios. The sort of thing that might be referred to as a very “gamist” approach to the situation.

2) Lost sense of wonder. Which I think relates to narrowing player sense of perspective, types of goals, and how the goals might be achieved.
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