I wonder if the developers had ever met a baby. Maybe they’d just sort of heard about them in passing and missed the whole “will bawl eyes out when strange things are happening like being out in the freezing cold before dawn, surrounded by giant stomping monsters”.
(But bizarrely well-behaved babies aside, Horizon Zero Dawn is amazing and oh my god they have female characters who are treated like normal capable human beings with no stupid sexy armour and people of all sorts of races and its not treated like a big deal in this world and ROBOT DINOSAURS YOU CAN RIDE oh my god seriously you have to play it)