As we navigate its tangled, anxiety-laden paths, enclosed within its shape-fitting borders, we are both the exasperated parent longing for closure and separation and the enthralled child, lingering forever in an unfolding process that is deeply comforting because it can never end.
This is kind of like false hope. We have agency in the game where we can make decisions that have impacts, but if these results lead to no end, no matter how immersive or engaging the environment is, the feeling of agency is bound to disappear.