Gizmodo has a piece awhile back lamenting this fact. You’re subjected to the whims of someone’s jokery. They example they have (if I recall) was that they coul

Gizmodo has a piece awhile back lamenting this fact. You’re subjected to the whims of someone’s jokery. They example they have (if I recall) was that they couldn’t guess the word, only to find out that it was related to holiday XYZ that was in the next few days and it seemed so obvious and dumb -- because now instead of having to figure out a word based on missing letters, you now needed to take into account current events, time, etc. Of course, I can’t find the link at the moment… (so, maybe I’m making it up).