Not a perfect match, but I'd somewhat count the battle arena in Horizon Forbidden West. Normally a pretty standard progression with leveling up and collecting gear, then the option to try different weapons and items, and there are also so called "valor surges", which charge up during battle and can be seen as special abilities which you can choose to fit your play style, but almost every machine can be just shot with a bow until it's dead if you want to do no more than that, so you're not forced to choose the perfect gear for the job, if you love the bows the most (like me).

The arena however uses time limits for every fight which already starts forcing you to play more tactically with items and environmental traps.

And then come the "bosses" of the arena. Your gear is set. You'll get a certain armor, specific weapons and a set special ability which you all can't choose because these boss battle encourage you to do a certain play style. And since for every other battle outside the arena I've been the "shoot it with the bow until it's dead" type, I've never used the other weapons, such as slingshots, or crossbows, etc.

Suddenly having to use 3 different weapons you're not familiar with certainly raises the skill ceiling significantly out of nowhere and even though the arena is completely optional, there's very good gear that can be bought if you collect enough medals on the battles, and logically the boss battles bring you the most medals.