Unironically, this drive prevents something like 90% of players from seeing some of the best moments in the game and inadvertently actively hampers their enjoyment. I don't only blame the developers though as most player are trained by decades of other RPGs that picking "wacky" dialogue options punishes you.

I think I've seen double digit streamers/Let's Players for example completely miss out on learning about the Pale because "I can't tell Lena I have no clue about Reality in front of Kim!".

And the biggest irony of it is that Kim largely doesn't care, as long as you solve the case thoroughly and don't behave like a complete asshole (by being racist/fascist/misogynistic for example) you will most likely end up having him truly trust you even despite picking a lot of the completely deranged and unhinged dialogue options.

He once scolded me for acting too sane :(

I got the "baddest of the bad cops" like immediately when I first started playing because I was really leaning in to RPing a drunken deranged bastard. Literally within 15 minutes of starting the game I got that achievement that only like 2% of players get because they're too afraid of disappointing Kim.

I tried to make Kim mad enough to shoot me.