Have you played The Green Knight. Agon 2e? Your post gives the impression that you haven't.A very long winded way of repeating that players can just make things up and the GM isn't allowed to poopoo their bright ideas, something that is so innocuous the only thing you have to do to add it to any game is just to have a GM who isn't being anti-social.
You are the one who introduced the phrase "pushing the right buttons to get the lore nuggets". So you'll have to tell me how it differs, in meaning, from "an exploration game" that requires the players to "engage with the gameworld".Call of Cthulu in particular isn't just about the players being the passive recipients of lore that have to push the right buttons to get the lore nuggets. COC is an exploration game, and Players have to engage with the gameworld in more ways than just those that get the GM to say something.
I neither awarded credit to the CoC gameplay experience, nor withheld credit. I said nothing about its credit-worthiness.the actual gameplay experience is much more robust than you're giving it credit for