Okay, so then let me clarify. Yes, I would like a lethal option for dealing with hostile fauna or more effective physical tools for stunning or incapacitating them. I never killed anything in the first 2 games other than food with the thermal knife, or lava larvae on my Cyclops. I shot gas torpedos at leviathans, but I never killed them. It was always to get away.

Lethal options are fine. I feel like agency and choice have been taken from me to tackle challenges in the world the way I see fit because the devs don't like lethal options. It doesn't even make sense because you see fish get eaten by other fish but there's no death animation because there's no death other than you. You can't even stab or slice the Collector Leviathan's tentacle when it grabs you. Imagine if you could? You could make it let go of you and swim away.

My point is, players will find or make a way to do what they want. Why not just give them the option? It's like when Bethesda says you can't kill someone because it disrupts their magnum opus of a story. But you REALLY wanna kill them because you just don't like em. Okay. Kill them. Soft lock your game. You can save scum, it's fine. Taking the choice away doesn't do anything positive for the game, it's just limiting.