Intelligence is not a superpower

[Tanarii]

Is it really unwise to walk into certain doom if you'll walk out victorious 99.9% of the time?

It is the moment you play a game that doesn't hold your hand quite so heavily, the DM giving the players the freedom to step outside the heavily built in safety boundaries of the design, to stick out their PCs necks and pull the guillotine level themselves.

Or staying within tje system, by putting the PCs in a sandbox where the player can choose to have them face something far more powerful than it's possible to defeat, or push on without sufficient resources until they get overwhelmed.

To use an analogy, it's like the way many modern drivers have no idea how to really drive, because of things like automatic transmission, and more importantly the safety features built into modern cars. Of course, the analogy breaks down because we only have one life to give and there are no rezzes, so safety is better than learning to do it right.