I'm saying that traveling to a temple is easy, and that being noticed doesn't give the infiltrated religion any advantage or compensation.
True for one religion. Trying to piece together a map of all the major religions on the island will take either a lot of time (by which the first data is already outdated) or massive teamwork. It requires doing something in-game, either abandoning other things you could do instead, or recruiting more people to help you out.
In other words: It offers gameplay instead of a button to click.
If religion data became truly public, at least it'd be coherent with the whole "religion is no secret" rhetoric I was given and it would put !@#$%^&s and fair players on the same level strategically.
Sorry, but you still don't get it. Religions aren't secret societies, but that doesn't mean everything about them is for public display. If in your thinking there are only two kinds of information: Secret and public, then you are missing a lot of the nuances of both real life and BattleMaster.
