This is in reply to a couple of asks I got last week. You can find them here and here.
Kind of. There are characters in reality shift stories who “behave” like clueless characters, but because of the nature of the story (that is, because reality has supposedly shifted around them) there is a very good reason for them to suddenly be clueless about the way the world functions. The sort of cluelessness I’m complaining about involves characters who have no reason to be clueless, beyond serving a convenient function for an author who should learn how to write better.