(I’m guilty of this too, so if you ever see me doing it in my fiction, make sure you tell me!)
I keep reading stories where the protagonist sees things. Okay, yes, assuming generally decent eyesight, we all see things, so please stop telling me that the protagonist sees things unless you want to draw attention to the act of seeing rather than what is being seen. Isn’t there a whole page in Burroway about that? Like one doesn’t need to write Jane watched the cars keep driving by outside the window if we have spent the last page in Jane’s head and if one writes The cars kept driving by outside the window we’ll understand that it is Jane seeing it as she is the protagonist.
Three things I’ve read today have this. Uggg. I am annoyed, pretty much like usual.