From their POV it’s legit a pacing thing, rather than technical. From my POV they should be able to stream assets fast enough to avoid that kind of loading at this point on current gen games that don’t have to run on last gen at all anymore, and natively running off SSD, even if that means lower LOD. That’s inherent to consoles anyway.Why would they need to lock you off in a specific location?
But idc about being trapped in an area; my pet peeve is slowing my movement speed. I much preferred running full speed along the tree roots on PS4 GOW 2018 to shimmying and squeezing through shyt. I fukking despise forced walking sections. Just make the shyt a cutscene at that point