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It's because said independence is a goal of play, not specifically because it came from the GM. You're trying to inject an "Us vs. Them" element into this that doesn't have to be there.

Irrelevant by what metric? Just because you can get same mechanical effect via another means does not mean the fiction is irrelevant. Honestly I'm having a hard time even processing this response.

And what type of effect in fiction is causing it.

So do you just not get to play those games? I can relate.

It's not an issue of right and wrong. It's just preference.

What makes that exhausting to you? What, in fact, is that to you and your play at all?

I'm happy to let Shadowdark be more popular. Daggerheart needn't put itself out 😉.

I would watch the heck out of that!

A lockpicking check doesn't necessarily involve any other people. A pickpocket check does.

You take what you can get (and what you can find players for). It's hardly a perfect world.

Agreed. I regularly tweak the rules of my version of D&D to make feel like a better simulation to me.

But it’s the comparison I've cared about since this thread started.

You really seem to enjoy beating the undead horse of hit points. Or rather, the 100% verisimilitude straw man likes to do that.

I don't factor that into the roll. I might factor it into whether or not there is a roll, or how often. But what might be there has nothing to do with how sneaky the PCs are.

The level and focus of contrivance has varied significantly over the editions, I would note.

Depends on what factors into the roll, and what exactly the roll determines.

Again, you are welcome to have that opinion. I simply disagree.

You are trying to support your point by referencing the words of a prominent figure in the hobby whose stated views in this circumstance align with your rhetoric. How is that not appeal to authority?

Ah, no wonder I'm uncomfortable with it. 😉

Satisfactory in the sense that it is a logical explanation for narrative game rolls, or in the sense that it suits your preference for such things?