people outside the industry might not appreciate how absolutely insane it is for a game director to play a random video game and decide "our game should have this feature"

It's roughly as normal as a cruise ship captain deciding to change destination halfway through.
Really, it's like a cruise ship captain deciding in the middle of the Caribbean that the ship needs a fourth swimming pool.
Sometimes features get added halfway through development – but that should always be to respond to a specific need, to fill a void. Not in a whim.
A competent studio does a lot of careful planning and exploratory work to avoid having to throw out large amounts of work later. Creating the conditions for work to be thrown away is the *opposite* of a director's job.

Ofc, lots of industry failsons and fauxteurs do it often.

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