“as I get older, I now prefer to know what is coming”
I’m not surprised.

Repeatedly it has been proven in psychological studies that people enjoy stories/narratives/entertainment media more if they know what is going to happen, even when they claim that they do not like having things ‘spoiled’. Human beings are able to focus on details and connect plot elements together if they know what is coming, and that creates a kind of anticipation which is more agreeable to our linearly-focused minds. This is why things like Le Morte Darthur and Crisis Core are more–not less–emotionally gripping, even although we know the ultimate outcome. In fact, they are emotionally gripping precisely because we know the ultimate outcome, and that allows all of the immense pathos of the situation to endlessly play upon us throughout the course of the story, rather than just in a single, incomplete, retrospective moment at the end, when surprise is the only instigating factor.

But study after study after study aside, you will never convince people of this psychological fact. They will tell you repeatedly (and wrongly) that they like things more if they don’t know the outcome. This is because most people don’t know themselves, and they certainly don’t know how their own brains work. (Have you ever met anyone who ACTUALLY knows what they want? I haven’t.)

And that’s why we don’t have a spoiler policy here. We give people what they really want–not what they claim to want.

–And that (in turn) is why so much punishment is handed out around here.

Or just play local Versus Mode and turn off all that bullshit.
YES.