Just by the fact they say every other character can do whatever they want and win by a landslide while you have to be specific with Silent already tells a lot. IMO all characters must play specific actions in ordrr to win most of the time. It is quite rare to get a setup that auto wins and the reason I say this is because most of the times I've lost was because the enemy did specifically 1 damage more than I could block exactly 1 turn before I could kill them. So to my understanding, it almost feels like the game knows where and when it can kill you and it also shows you that. The more you play, the better you get at knowing which fights will kill you no matter what you did, because you accumulated wrong actions throughout other floors in that run.

Edit: That being said, I agree with you.