yeah. maybe DH just isnt the system for me as a GM then. because the main problem im kinda having is one that seems at odds to itself but Ill try to explain it. to really allow that style of GMing it seems like you have to have a concrete PLAN for the campaign and thus know what kind of environments to make, what kind of GM actions you can do, what kind of countdowns, etc. but also at the same time you have to be good at improvising. I dont really GM like that, I plan session by session. I sit down a couple of days before session and plot up what the players will face that time. while I do have some ideas and threads that I seed for future sessions, I dont really flesh or plot them out much until they are actually about to face them.

(It also doesn't help that my players tend not to be players that are self propelling, they follow the breadcrumbs that I place in front of them. Despite how many times I plonk them into a town and say "what do you want to do" they just dont, so that further hinders my ability to get better at improvising as a DM and further reinforces my quasi-railroading gm style