After Dawntrails abject Failure of a Story, there need to be serious Consequences

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The HanuHanu not knowing about the powers of their own festival float, despite the festival being held regularily and the crops instantly having a huge, visible increase in growth.
Bakool Ja Ja not even being reprimanded for releasing Valigarmanda, still being able to compete for the throne like nothing happened. It's not even clear why he knows how to free the creature in the first place, or why he can openly be a criminal without nobody caring.
The cooking contest rewarding stones only to the winning team by definition, forcing confrontation between half the contestants down the line. Also expecting every contestant to take the same route despite not giving directions on where to go when.
The first dungeon being completely useless, seing how the boat catches up by the end anyways, so everyone could have just stuck together from the very start. No need to search for an alternate route on foot. (...)

you should not overthink anything that happens, lul
The birds are birds, they might just be stupid. The cooking contest got planned by the sleeping head, maybe he wasnt as wise as you would think or the other head messed up stuff, who knows.
You expect that everything works in a "perfect", most efficient way. Have you ever worked with people in rl? Plenty of them are dumb and do irrational stuff all the time. Its nice that they implemented that in a game