It was jest-ish. Reductio ad absurdum. Your friend found a setting that made your chosen difficulty level less difficult. I’m not sure how different that is from just playing an easier game.
For activities where you care about the result, not about the activity itself, it makes tons of sense to change the approach to be more successful with less effort. For games where you’re specifically challenging yourself more than necessary, I think the case is a lot weaker about how to optimize.
It was jest-ish. Reductio ad absurdum. Your friend found a setting that made your chosen difficulty level less difficult. I’m not sure how different that is from just playing an easier game.
For activities where you care about the result, not about the activity itself, it makes tons of sense to change the approach to be more successful with less effort. For games where you’re specifically challenging yourself more than necessary, I think the case is a lot weaker about how to optimize.