Hello,
I'm the author of Adventuron and I recently wrote an article on how to design text adventure games in 2020.
I think this will be useful to newcomers to the genre.
These are just my personal thoughts and observations.
https://medium.com/@model_train/text-adventure-game-design-in-2020-608528ac8bda
Feel free to disagree but I do think there are some good guiding principles in there.
Chris