I don’t know yet if Death Stranding does this, but I’ve come around to respecting Kojima and his teams for the sheer volume of background history they just dumped into their games, sometimes as optional text, often as unskippable exposition by people with no time to stand around and chat.
Like as a player and reader yes I will sit here and do this, but as a project manager type I’d be supremely annoyed to see that Hideo spent this sprint writing the complete history of the rise of the nanoclass instead of the dialogue required for the scene between Unquenchable Marmoset and President Mads Mikkelsen.