At least make it a toggle option so I’m not forced to play like a baby following line. I don’t mind new players “in my space” but I do mind when developers start destroying the immersion and quality of their games to appeal to them

I mean, I was new to games at one point and I don't remember cues that were this poorly designed. Games are a visual medium. They always communicated their expectations to the player. It is of course true that if you go back far enough into the history of games design you find worlds that care less and less to explain themselves. But a literal coat of yellow paint is both aesthetically incompetent, but also the worst of all possible worlds. It is unsubtle, it's a band-aid for bad level design, and it's a genre convention so it twice removes you from the scenery.

In a game that is about exploring the world the yellow paint is akin to laugh tracks used for comedy. Only remixed to be even more obnoxious than normal. It is fun and ok to be lost in a world, that's part of the adventure. You'll never be lost in your apartment but you'll never get to explore it ether.