@Fey-Realme I read all the versions you linked in your post and I see you put a lot of work on them!

From the very first outline to the “first finished draft” I see how you really expanded on the concept.

As I was reading the “first draft” I could imagine visually how fun it would be seeing him dealing with the tangle at the house, and then all the landscape that he goes through.
I like very much the idea of the magical thread which although not mentioned, sounds like the perfect gift for someone who is extremely forgetful and someone who can’t see, they always can find each other.
I liked the hints of humor here and there were a refreshing note along the adventure.

Now for the final version titled “12 with a point” I must admit, and I apologize in advance, I didn’t like it the same way as I liked the other version and here is why: the tone of the story does a full 180 flip. While in the first draft Wilhelm is loving, patient, and caring, accepting that his wife is a free spirited and prone to trouble person, the Wilhelm in the final draft shows so much frustration and resentment towards her that makes me feel their marriage is in downfall.

In the first draft he goes to search her out of worry, but in the second he goes to find her in anger for not being where she belongs and almost in a threatening way he says she will be in trouble.
I know you are trying to stabilish at the end that she went on through all that trouble to help him, and he wasn’t able to see that until the end. But waiting until the very end to redeem his angry behavior didn’t work for me to make me feel better about the whole 75 percent of the story.
Indeed when he lashes out at the door and yells why bother at all, I was questioning that too. He doesn’t act like he loves Griselda, instead he acts like he is annoyed that “his girl” isn’t where she is supposed to. So why does a blind guy would go through mountains and caves to find her then? This question takes my mind to sinister conclusions, which I know is not at all what you are trying to do.

At some point at the end he says that his frustration was because he felt lonely sad and hurt, but that is not really shown anywhere, only we see his bursts of anger.
I personally would like to see those emotions in the first story, where this compassionate man who is practically blind, worries not only for his wife, but then he is hit by the realization of his loneliness without her.
In short, I liked the 1st draft, but with the ending of the second draft( from the moment she puts the glasses on him)

Regarding the armature, I’m not very sure, it seems that what he learns is that he was seeing the wife, and her actions through a wrong lens , what he took as uncaring and reckless was actually her caring. But as mentioned before, having read both stories one after the other, the second one didn’t make me feel that the ending was earned. Maybe if I hadn’t read the first draft and only had seen the last one my opinion wouldn’t be so biased, but I guess it all goes down to the kind of feeling each person wants to feel when we enter into a story, something I think I remember listening in one of sanderson’s lectures (and very possibly some other places too) as “promise of the tone” .

I really hope this feedback is helpful. I always aspire to give honest and open opinions but internally I always worry they will be taken wrongly. But I believe as creators we can always take and discard what aligns or not with our vision.