Oh....so now you acknowledge that it wasn't simply a matter of standing on a plate, but also finding something to stand on it for you. Getting that "something" wasn't apparent at all though and Aloy didn't tell you where to go and get it at all.
the only instance where not simply standing on it was needed is a moment where Aloy tells you she can't hit the pillar from it, and then immediately tells you you need something heavy to push onto it. the ONLY place that something could have been is behind the glowing yellow wall that DIRECTLY NEXT TO THE PLATE...
in that moment you are on a platform where there is literally nothing but 1 pressure plate, 1 wall and 1 glowing yellow window. that is all there is. not only that, but in front of that 1 sigular glowing window, there was a yellow glowing climbing spot.
and after breaking that GLOWING window, you find exactly 1 object behind the window.
you then have to push that metal thingy through a force shield WHICH SHE TELLS YOU TO DO AS WELL... and which is also the 1 and only way you can even push that metal thing.
she's literally like "I am able to push the metal thing (not sure what she actually calls it) through that shied, but I have to walk around".
like I said, after having that shit, the most simplest of puzzles, spoiled by her I also stopped paying attention to the subtitles and only read them when i saw that it was one of the other Characters speaking and not Aloy.
edit: thank god for Longplays on Youtube lol!
here is the exact "puzzle", the guy in the video even speeds through the part and she still manages to explain what to do before he can do it speeding as fast as possible