I love Monument Valley, but I'm so tired of the 'stuck = bug' panic (it stresses me out)

Bit of a rant: every time a new chapter drops or someone goes back to the games, the same thing happens.

Someone posts that they are 'softlocked' or that progression is broken, and the thread turns into a pile-on of anxiety before anyone asks simple questions like: did you rotate the view, did you back out and re-enter, did you tap or interact with everything on the screen, are you sure the level is actually completed?

I'm a mom of two and Monument Valley is my late-night calm-down game. I play it in the quiet after the after-school chaos. Part of why it works is that it does not shout instructions at you. You sit with the space, try a small thing, and eventually it clicks. When the community immediately jumps to "it must be a bug," it spreads the opposite vibe. New players end up feeling like they are missing a patch instead of missing a perspective.

I'm not saying there are no real bugs - of course there are, especially across different devices. But it feels like we've lost the muscle of asking, "maybe the puzzle is asking you to look again?"

If you're stuck, you are not failing. The game is literally built to make you question what's possible. I just wish we could make basic troubleshooting the default response before declaring the whole thing broken.

End rant. Anyone else feel this, or am I being too precious about the vibe here?