I was already almost always picking Luigi. Recent events have only solidified my choice.

That’s a lot fairer and makes a lot more sense than what I was imagining. Although I’m still a little wary of the devs designing a purposefully limited time-intensive system, and the publishers then dangling a paid solution in front of players. Even when it’s just a part of the solution.

From my understanding, the game doesn’t lack fast travel, the resources for it are just incredibly rare unless you use micro-transactions.