That's a great point, and definitely applies to a more general case than game design. I find the same thing with our web apps. Often the suggestions are ludic

That's a great point, and definitely applies to a more general case than game design. I find the same thing with our web apps. Often the suggestions are ludicrous (make all visited links bright red so I know I've seen them), but the (often unstated) underlying problem is real (on my monitor the visited and unvisited link colours are difficult to distinguish).