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True, but the extra smarts were more of an inconvenience rather than a big issue. The standalone part was useful - we needed to keep the number of parts (therefore the points of failure) low. For instance Unity made it super easy to build simple video loop and not having to worry too much about the FPV settings of a display and the built in battery worked to keep it portable.
About a decade back Bret Victor [1] talked about how his principle in life is to reduce the delay in feedback, and having faster iteration cycles not just helps in doing things (coding) better but also contributes to new creative insights. He had a bunch of examples built to showcase alternative ways of coding, which is very close to being HUDs - one example shown in the OP is very similar to the one he presents to "step through time to figure out the working of the code".
Vipassana Meditation formalizes this to a large extent and is extremely approachable. I would highly recommend anyone looking at guided meditation to give this a try: