Who The Heck Designed The Dock With The Heart Container In The Original Legend Of Zelda?

I’ve been thinking about the original 8-bit Legend of Zelda game over the past couple days and there is another thing that always bugs me. Who the heck in Hyrule designed the raft dock where the heart container is stuck that you need the ladder to get to?

As players remember, raft docks are places you can take off across the water using the raft. Obviously, someone in Hyrule supposedly built them so that they could go places on a raft (apparently the only water travel vessel ever invented in Hyrule). However, the one above you need the ladder to get to because neither of these are connected to the land.

Who the heck supposedly built these things and for what purpose? I could never figure this out. I mean, I know this was just put in so you’d have to get the ladder to get the heart container, but I mean in theory that this was supposed to have been built by someone in Hyrule. Were they high? This dock is completely useless for rafting. Only a moron would have done this.

Personally, I think this is just a case of something being done for play of a video game that doesn’t make sense within the actual context of the hypothetical world. Regardless, it always bugged the crap out of me. It makes no damn sense within the game world.