Seeing Folklore losing in LD54 was sad, for me it sounded like a fresh limitation (setting-wise and not mechanic-wise, as usual)

Write that down is a tribute to older games where you needed to physically write some information down in order to progress (to analyze, to remember, to draw a scheme, etc.). Miss that in newer games a bit.

And Learn the rules - we just can't have too many games with knowledge-based progression!