I am perpetually irritated, in some fundamental aspect of my being, by the lie of symbolism.
The extreme difference between the fullness of lived experience and the simplicity of, and poor precision of, words and phrases seems to me to be commonly ignored, willfully.
It is not just a philosophical topic, philosophical though the topic may be. The details of experience must be picked and chosen, and human decisions at this frequency are simply mostly not carefully researched.
So what is missing ?