Sure, you're right that it's still possible, of course! What I meant is what kind of behaviour you want to encourage as a dev by default.

Any case it's just an argument for why they might not be doing that. I'd be down for no deplete too! 👍

I think you got it right! I just meant that if we take this to its logical conclusion, if people don't deplete keys then they are forced to try (and fail) the same +10 key again and again until they complete it. Instead of depleting to a +9, completing, and getting a different key.

Eeeh, that overgeneralises and solves the wrong problem. Spamming is not inherently bad if people want to complete a key, it's that the result of letting players play the key they want at any time will inevitably make their time with M+ less varied. Not very easy to solve imo.

The only argument against this that I've heard around is that it might get repetitive since you'd basically reset the same key over and over. Which I guess it's not crazy to think that, but I'd love a no-deplete season as an experiment at least.

Oh I haven't seen this one, thanks! Something to throw on the 2nd monitor while I'm running around Barrens 🥲