Am i missing something about darkness?

[morgan (Morgan Willcock)]

The rationale is in the release announcement:

Dialog release announcements

Dialog version 0m/03 (library 0.46) introduces some compatibility-breaking changes, so please keep on reading! Darkness The first important change is that when the lights go out, reachable objects remain in scope. Since time immemorial, darkness in text adventures has been incapacitating. Inform 6 established (or perpetuated?) the practice of moving the player object to a separate room (called “thedark”), so they could still interact with their possessions but not with the objects around them. …