That puzzle you're stuck on is probably the hardest one in the game. I solved it and there were some things I didn't totally understand.
Yeah I have, without exaggeration, probably spent 5 hours or more staring at and trying out various unsuccessful solutions on this puzzle. There were a lot of other puzzles in the game that took me a long time, sometimes a few days (like other people in the thread there were plenty of puzzles where I went to bed while stuck on a puzzle and woke up with the solution), but at least in those cases I always had some idea of what the puzzle expected from me, I knew the parameters just not the specific path, but with this puzzle I have no inkling as to what I'm meant to be doing. I have some ideas but because the puzzle doesn't broadcast any errors like other puzzles I have no idea if I am even on the right track.
It was fine at first because I kept coming back to the puzzle while doing other things on the island, but now that I've nearly completed the game it's beginning to get frustrating. I'm even considering trying to bruteforce it by screenshotting every single failed solution I try out so I don't repeat them, and simply try every single possible solution.
ok im done venting my frustration