To me this screams a completionist mindset
Not that there's anything wrong with a completionist mindset! We're all free to play our single-player games however we like

This! I can live with that just fine. When the game finally comes out, I'll be like a sponge in a bathtub, sucking everything in and happily floating on the surface. In my defense. I am also somewhat predisposed. I played Bg 1 / 2 passionately for years, but just as long, for example, only found out years later that there is a Shadow Thief vendor at the lower right edge of the map of Waukeen's Promenade. I don't want that to happen to me again.
