One of my favorite moments starting Death Stranding up on the PS4 for the first time was when I read the canteen entry and discovered this tidbit of information. Sam doesn't even get to enjoy the taste of crisp clean mountain water sourced from the peaks he roams, it is Bridges that forces him to drink MONSTER™ at all times while on the job. This factoid learned very early on made the bleakness of their post-stranding world very apparent to me. So yeah, the MONSTER being taken out of the game kinda damages that absurd world fact.