Maybe it's "Authored" vs. "Emergent"

[Cheesegear]

Creating the world in advance is not the same as an Authored game. As you well know many Emergent games start with the world created in advanced and yet the OP talks about Authored story vs Emergent story.

I backspaced an entire post.

TL;DR: We can sort everything out with one simple question. What is this scenario called?

Player: 'I want to do [X].'
DM: 'I knew you would!' *Pulls out notes written a week ago, marked [X].*
Player: 'Wait...How did you know I was going to do that?'
DM: ...Yes.

Define that for me, and a lot of our problems get solved.