I'm going to chip in with a bit of agreement here.

When you look some direction, there's other things that can go on (weather, gechos, etc.) which can be confusing.

Usually, you can sort it out (sometimes by looking several times, that sort of thing, and the "nothing special" message is pretty obvious), but I've been confused more than once. It doesn't help that sometimes the exit descriptions are wrong (I remember filing a typo report where one of the wall descriptions was on the ceiling).

Mostly that vauge confusion doesn't affect anything critical. But I sometimes think that I might have figured some stuff out whch I haven't, if I could have put that mental energy to more useful ends.