Because NPC’s are funny and also without a proper NPC system the Alien may be harder to do.

[Bucky] I’m trying to resolve the confusion over whether other players can move Bucky Bot out of the bathroom, and similar actions. Is there a way in which this refactoring doesn’t work? Or were you hoping for a fix that ruled in the other direction, that only the Proprietor can move the Bot out of the bathroom?

[Kevan] Is there confusion? I think the phrase “as though they controlled the Robot” is sufficient to meet the requirement of the bathroom’s statement “No Visitor can be removed from the Bathroom except by the Group that controls them”. It says nothing about whether the Visitor belongs or doesn’t belong to the group, just the word “controls”, which ties this together as an allowed action, IMHO.

[Jonathan] In a comment on It’s No Picnic Bucky talks about the interpretation that “the Robot Operator doesn’t control the Robot” during a Bathroom evacuation - perhaps as their own view, perhaps as a view that they maybe have a reason to believe that another player holds. And they might even consider this a big enough problem to be voting down It’s No Picnic for making the problem worse, so I thought I’d try to address it.

But I agree with you that the current wording for Bot control seems fine. And this proposal endorses that by having the Bot 100% controlled by the player.