I respect an applicant more if they don’t submit a cover letter.
Correctly identifying that it is a waste of time and not worth the energy tells me they can take the initiative to streamline workflow.
No one does that. The design relies on decisions made on round 5 feeling like they had an effect on round 20. It's far too disconnected. Players instead just long rest whenever they can. DMs counter by making big, boss battles the norm.
I haven't had time to touch First Light yet, but I keep seeing posts like this pop up that treat really basic things (like "pedestrians should not be made of concrete") as an unreasonable ask of a AAA game in 2026.
IIRC, Simpsons Hit & Run (2003) had them jump out of the way if you tried to hit them. Even Mixtape has them jump out of the way if you try to hit them.
If you didn't want to put in that effort, just stand the guy on the other side of the fence, since you cannot (I assume) drive through the fence.
It's not a game breaker itself, but it is revealing of design priorities, and (essentially) of a certain laziness. It's often a symptom of a broader problem. Laziness tends to compound.