I feel sometimes Indie devs think they have to have a reason to make a game, so they're all "let's make it a metaphor" so they can justify what they're doing. And the players are all "that's nice bro, just make a good fun game!"

or maybe that's me being stuck in the J.A.D.E acronym all the time. (Justify, argue, defend, explain.) I know I don't have to defend what I do, just sometimes, I get stuck there.