I get people’s reluctance. Personally, I think it’s going to be a very fun unique experience in an RPG being completely paranoid in every interaction about the very real danger of losing control.
But also, I’m not doing a first playthrough. I’ll be doing several playthroughs simultaneously, so I always have a different experience to bounce between.
That might be the way to do it, but avoid the Internet for spoilers because you’ll be progressing at half the speed.
Oh, much less than half speed. I am so busy that even with one playthrough I’d be crawling along long after everyone else is finished. I won’t have a problem with spoilers though. When you don’t have social media, don’t visit Reddit (or many websites at all, actually), and condition the YouTube algorithm to not show you any gaming content, avoiding spoilers is really easy. I won’t need to come here anymore. I’ll have the game to play, and because I’ve roped in my friends to playing with me, I’ll finally have IRL people to talk about it with.