@michaelgemar @LeviKornelsen
Dragging people through all the sights must be tedious. But there has to be some middle ground or way to introduce people to unusual world features in a less irksome manner. After all, there are published settings that are "non-standard", which some folks really love.

I imagine some players are playing because they know a bit of the setting and have already bought in to the premise.
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@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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@LeviKornelsen
Not exactly, but sort of along these lines:

The Autocrat & The Secret Regulations of Desire

[ a.k.a. "Why We Can Have Nice Wish Spells" ]

https://fantasyheartbreak.blogspot.com/2012/04/autocrat-secret-regulations-of-desire.html
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