How better/be best to reject option-setting verbs?

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@aschultz

Or am I overthinking a small thing here?

I think so. @Zarf said:

@zarf

How costly in performance terms are before/instead/after rules, anyway?

Very little. Each of them is called on every action, and exits quickly when the action does not match. So it’s not significant unless you wind up writing you whole game that way and have hundreds of instead rules.