“I never realized players may want to go down there to explore!”
How? I mean, you even gave us the option to use a rope! And the room got unlocked after completing the second shrine’s puzzle, so of course the solution for the third one has to be somewhere down there.
“you can use this dead end to… give somehing else a “dead end”.”
That, meanwhile, would never have occured to me. Perhaps it might be worth giving everyone that hint?