Ideas of questionable quality

[Kotlol]

Don't actually touch artifacts on help intent. something like "You reach out to touch the thingamajig, but reconsider at the last moment."?

Probably a shitty idea since its nonintuitive and intent-based interaction is fiddly and annoying.
Mostly just spitballing since it sounds like people have a bad habit of pressing the figurative big red button by touching every fucking artifact they see completely mindlessly.

Not a questionable one. I have touched so many artifacts on accident when I didn't intent to...
Remember the problem of having a weapon and putting it on the table on accident, thus disarming yourself?
This is the same, but less annoying.

Besides touching is needed sometimes to help find out what the artifact could be before it activates.
I think the fix should be: "if you wear gloves, artifacts don't activate"

This is a good idea! I'll just make a seperate suggestion.