my favorite is when it says "unsaved progress will be lost" and then autosaves on quit anyway

Yep. Playing FF XV atm and whenever I select “return to title screen” I see the warning and always think that it could’ve been developed such if you save and then choose to exit to title that the game would simply do that, recognizing that no additional game play occurred between the last save and the input to return to title.

Like, cmon, game. 🫩

If we don't want to hard code any conditions, it's as easy as saying:
"Last save was x seconds ago, any progress since will be lost"
Better UX, easier to add than any if saved in last 5 minutes then continue else...

• Every veteran Bethesda/Obsidian fan

I remember Fallout 3 constantly getting worse and worse performance on the Xbox 360 until I deleted about 250 saves and it ran great again (by FO3 standards).

Maybe being in Early Access is why I behave differently with Subnautica 2. I manually save and then exit without saving because, illogically, "I remember exaCtlY wHAt I was dOing at the moment I manually saved, but who knows what the Save & Exit option will do to my saves list without my permission, or where it'll drop me upon loading as compared to loading my manual save."

And yet I affirm that every single time I go to load a save, there's an identical non-manual save parked right above my actual manual save. Can't tell if it's an actual separate autosave or just a duplicated view of my manual save, though occasionally I notice two different time stamps (I assume from unsaved Exits I performed when drowning) and my brain says "AHAA! Not catching ME slacking" as I proudly load the manual save.

Just dumb fun brain arguments that only persist because I'm not hurting anyone (else).