Why can’t life come with a reset button? Or at least save states?
I prefer hardcore mode because we can’t just savescum our way to victory and instead have to learn to let go of our failures, learn from them, and use those lessons to advance the story.
Until you kill a quest character or fuck a quest up so horribly that it can’t be completed and you’re left with no possible recourse. Then you go on to the next quest, knowing not to mess it up in the same way the last one was messed up; but you find a new way. And then you go to the next quest and find a way to mess that one up. And soon you’re left wishing you had bought a different game.