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its reasonably the same "reversion to the mean" or "not x, but y"

the intentionally placed tree serves no particular in-game job mechanically. it instead points your eyes to the right place when you walk up the path, and then again when you look back down from above.

when they're saying everything is intentionally placed, they mean everything, whether it looks important or not. It's all directed to a cohesive core

[pbhjpbhj]

So you want a human going 'oh stick a tree anywhere, it doesn't matter' rather than having that done procedurally whether by a simple algorithm or an ML model?

It sounds like you might be assuming intent where there is little. I suspect if you didn't know a poem was written by an LLM you might ascribe purpose and intent to many aspects - rather like a high-school English language teacher.