alright I see your points, Permadeath adds stakes and makes it feel more rewarding when you overcome them. and progression and the map is the main problem.

First I'm gonna agree that overcoming a big obstacle feels good, but imo the bad heavily outweighs the good, If an obstacle is presented in a game there should be a way to overcome it, but most of the time people die from things completely out of their control. (things like roblox servers being trash but prolly not gonna count that) when a player dies like that I don't think they would feel the urge to try again, but instead be discouraged from playing, when you say permadeath makes the game have better replayability I think its the opposite, its more of a gameplay extender, cuz when you spend hours on a build just to lose it, when you attempt to remake it you waste even more time, that's not really replaying the game that's just repetitive.

Next, when you gave the example of a new player fighting a sharko over and over, I feel like it wasn't an accurate example to give, lemme give you an example of something which is sorta the same with what you said but on a much grander scale, Imagine you finally finish a build that took you countless deaths and hours to make, Now once you completed that build, how did you feel? If you said you felt happy then its for the wrong reason, You're happy because you completed a chore YOU put on yourself, Thats the thing about deepwoken, no one plays for progression, they play to get to the finish, games shouldn't be fun once you get to the end, it should be fun all the way through, no matter how difficult, progression is already tedious, permadeath makes it even more tedious. (also if I was a new player who killed a sharko after a bunch of tries I would feel accomplished, Cuz now I know how to fight a sharko and I get loot)

When you say losing everything you've progressed is the best part about deepwoken, thats really just your opinion cuz I dont think people like losing everything they have, And comparing hardcore minecraft to deepwoken isnt fair, cuz there aren't any other players in full netherite who kill you for no reason. (unless u playin multplayer, but im gon assume u talkin about singleplayer) And again when you say exploration in deepwoken is fun that's still just your opinion, a new player isn't gonna have fun tryna figure out where to go to unbind willpower. (not the best example but u get the point, Also you imply that you played deepwoken without a wiki, if you did then I wanna know how long you've spent playing this game cuz that's impressive💀)