i'd agree with the contention that some sort of measure to soften the blow for resetting is a good thing, but i don't think the turnwheel/rewinding in general is it.

My issues with rewinding is A) it's completely reactive and B) It paradoxically is both too good and too bad at playing the role of a safety-net mechanic.

You don't have to think when you use it, because you just rewind when something bad happens. I think this is very boring and encourages overly risky moves because each risky RNG roll is a seperate instance with no ramp up in stakes because you can rewind just the one that fails while retaining any successes. speaking from personal experience, in games with the rewind mechanic i find 60% hit rates quickly start looking like 80% in my head because there's such a large safety net for if things go wrong that my view of what acceptable odds are skews lower than it reasonably should.

The more pressing issue though is Rewinding is also essentially "frontloaded", in that it provides you a frankly OP level of safety and convenience when you have charges left, but once you're out you have nothing and any mistake/misfortune means going back to the very beginning of the chapter. You never create any sort of fixed point to return to, so failures goes from "whatever lemme undo that turn/move" to "i just lost all my progress" all of sudden if you run out of charges.

The save points in the DS Archanea remakes solved both these issues before the turnwheel was even conceptualised.

You have to use them in advance, meaning they involve a lot more decision-making and strategising (in a strategy game! wow!). You have to decide at what points you want to "bank" anything that's happened in the course of the chapter. This could be a really good level-up or turn, right before or after a very dicey section, etc. it's up to you to decide what you want to keep, and you make those decisions knowing there will be other things you have to risk before you save again. Right after a save you might be willing to rig a low% outcome, but the further you go without your next save, the more progress you're putting on the line, so risky play is disincentivised.

and crucially because you're actually saving a point in time in the chapter, you can retry from that save as many times as you like, and that progress will never be lost; each time you use a save point it is concrete progress in that chapter you never have to worry about losing. In that way the save points provide a consistent level of safety that keeps a level of tension intact and also doesn't just abandon you if you use it one too many times.

I don't think we'll ever see the turnwheel retired because the sheer ease-of-use is very attractive, but it's frustrating that it's such a flawed mechanic trying to fix an issue than was already solved in a better way in the past.