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I personally think people are taking the Gameboard ideas too seriously. I see them as analogies of what's going on, like the chess metaphors throughout the series. I don't think it's the be-all-end-all explanation for the meta-world, rather just how Bern and Lamba choose to look down on the human world, showing their detachment from the human emotions involved. I can't remember Ronove or Virgilia ever calling them gameboards, and doesn't Battler refer to them as 'tales' or 'fragments' instead?
I don't think that we need to think of Higurashi in terms on a gameboard, even if Bern and Lambda, maybe even Featherine, choose to look back on it in that way. And if you think about it, if Higurashi was the traumatizing 'logic error' Bern remembers, it makes sense she'd want to distance her emotional self from it as much as possible. She'd want to think back on it as a detached 'game' rather than remember what it was like when it was her reality.
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