Honestly, it feels a lot like that. You’re fighting a boss with all the effort you’ve put in, only to realize the level designer set the challenge. You can tweak a few tactics, but the goal is still the same. Games give us a sense of agency, but the sandbox is built by someone else, so we’re always, in a way, following a script. It's less about destiny and more about mastering the rules the game creator gave us. And, if you’re really good, you can bend those rules a bit—just don’t expect the game to hand you a graduation certificate after all that.