[Everyone: YES!!!
Everyone now: wait, hold on a minu--]

I think pain is the point.

[If his line of "work" was anything to go by. It was quite similar to how this game is functioning right now regardless of whether or not it's apparently functioning correctly.

D could have been a Composer...]

Yes, it probably would. But... I don't think that is the intention of who- or whatever is altering this game. Supposedly.