Regarding FFXVI and the active time lore feature, a feature that allows players to pause anytime to get lore assistance regarding plot, characters, terms, etc, a quote from a polygon article:
Good lord, their own devs didn't have a clue what was going on in the story. This is going to be XIII all over again with the codex entries. I really want to stay positive, but man, this is definitely a wait and see at this point.“I think it was May in 2019,” Yoshida remembers. “We brought together pretty much the main staff from all of the sections working on the game, and we read through the entire script all together. [...] And we found out that a lot of even the internal core staff were lost, they didn’t know what was going on! So we realized all of a sudden that we needed some way to support players that were going to feel this way as well. Because if we as devs are feeling it, players are definitely going to.”