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Guess who's been playing the original Hollow Knight and immediately broke his Fragile Greed charm twice
(hexbear.net)
Both times I managed to equip it right before getting ambushed by a difficult boss 
Don't think I'll bother with the fragile charms anymore. The busywork they punish you with for dying isn't worth it.
It's not "dishonest", I have lost hours of progress, many times, to forgetting to save or not realising a difficult section was coming up. How is that "dishonest"? What are you getting out of being so antagonistic? I considered this but genuinely didn't think anyone would be such an asshole about it.
Okay, it's not dishonest. You're right that I don't know how earnestly you hold your position.
But it is a misrepresentation of the arguments. It's a false dichotomy. You're conparing as souls-like corpse retrieval against manual saves at save points, when there are games that autosave near bosses without requiring corpse retrieval, that don't erase progress or impose a death penalty.