Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
As someone who is playing the game I can say that yeah, short rest is just a button. I've never actually hit it (really should I play a Warlock...) but I have hist Long Rest, and I'm actually not sure resting as as free as you think. I've long rested once, and there was a minor scene of Astarian going off as we slept, and the next morning we found the pig he vampirize. That implies that Long Rests do change the world when they happen- we have no reason to believe they won't have a time tracker for certain things.

Additionally you can find fountains that let you heal you restable resources and healing.
That as it may be, restricting long rests restricts short rests too, if they're connected this way. The fountains sound like a weird bypass of the problem, but I guess it at least means the devs are aware of it.