The Masefield Syndrome seems to be irrelevant and useless. Since the Player is apparently immune. You cannot go Insane or have hallucinations. You Devs should make the Masefield Syndrome more dangerous and dying and reprinting removes Symptomes. The Symptomes should getting worse over time, like seeing things or hearing random voices calling you to the “Tree” OR even Fish talking to you and telling you to commit suicide. Otherwise you can throw the Idea of the Masefield-story in the Garbage. The Game even tells you, you have to commit suicide to remove the symtoms. BUT keep it in Moderation, so don’t have to kill yourself every 30 minutes to get rid of Hallucinations.
Mild hallucinations starting to kick in when you eat lots of the food and spend lots of time on Proteus could build immersion but I think for various reasons we should limit how often we tell the player to end their own life. It happens once in the tutorial which may be enough times