It is a shame. It's a game that's trivially optimisable but requires you to avoid doing so to have fun. It's a game that already existed, so must have become popular for another reason: because they came up for a way for people to brag about their intelligence in a socially acceptable way.

Ironically, it's disappointing to see how poor the vocabulary of some English-first-language speakers is & how readily they blame the game for using quite common words that they don't know.