The thing is, I would definitely spend more money on a game if I didn’t feel like I was being pressured to fork out the cash. Like, if I know that I could have gotten a better outcome if I made better choices, I go back and repeat the story (more ad revenue from me replaying) or I pay to fix the mistake. When I think that they’re shoving in choices to milk money from me, I assume that they’re not going to be very good quality choices.
Plus, that’s really realistic! You either take care and time and make your life easy, or you make bad decisions and you have to pay for them.