This resonates. A lot of games nowadays emulate something more like a movie or book and like you said, it’s about finishing the experience. Even something like Hades he gameplay is old school and fairly straight forward, but the sheer amount of recorded dialogue makes for an experience in and of itself.
Along the same lines I grew to care less about 100%ing a game unless it’s a game WORTH doing so.
Interested to see how agora works out this is good stuff!