If you're writing in the first person, present tense, I feel like the voice should always be well-situated in scene

First-person present-tense is the default in young adult literature nowadays. I have no problem with this. Different genres have different defaults. Like, why do Victorian novels need to have warm, all-knowing, opinionated narrators? Nobody knows! But it is a fact of the times, and it'd be silly to complain about.

What I will complain about, though (as I…