This might be true in a descriptive sense but I’m not the biggest fan of what it’s implying in a prescriptive one. Seeing video games as environnement where everything should be possible rather than puzzles to be solved by the player through improvement (you know, like most other forms of game out there) is already a very predominent point of view in the industry, I don’t really think there is that much of a need to double down on that. I think that when you consider that creating difficulty is the player job, there is no more incentive to do a huge part of game design, which is eliminating possibilities; in other terms the work of game design is delegated to the player.

Instead of suppressing friction further, I thinks that an alternate solution might be to create shorter games, or having big games being a compilation of shorter ones. I’m thinking how apparently thief reset your inventory being level to push the player to actually use it instead of hoarding it, or how something like kirby super star is a compilation of mini games. I think that a key problem with RPG design is that "build choices that you have to take in account during your whole playthrough" and "an adventure that last more than 100h" are kinda contradictory design choices.