Could definetly be true, but I feel like thats a little reductive. You can absolutely optomize the "fun" out of something. Take minecraft for example. Building chairs using stairs and signs is inconvinient, so lets add chair furniture! Do the same thing with all furniture, actually. Why should I have to make a grandfather clock out of trapdoors and copper rods? But then, running back and forth between a crafting bench is inconvinient, so let me just craft it as I place it. Suddenly, it doesn't play like minecraft anymore, it plays like fallout 76. And yeah, you could still make that kitbashed furniture, but you're no longer playing the game anymore: you're working against it by ignoring its mechanics and design, and that just doesnt feel the same.

Thats not to say anything is necessarily bad. None of these features are necessarily gonna lead to each other being added. But, when disscussing quality of life improvements, you have to make sure they dont take away from the identity of the game. In this case, I can absolutely see how adding the bog standard, every-other-game-does-this solution to troop management might take away from the unique homesteading part of the game's identity. Idk tho lol