So were you agreeing, or should we expect an eloquently-stated evidence-based reason for disagreeing?
Why not?
- does chess involve skill? It does.
- does chess involve execution skill? It doesn’t. (There’s no “twitch skill” to moving a piece, it’s pure decision-making.)
- in a broad sense, what percent of players have even a rough strategy of how they approach the new system? Probably not many.
- in a specific sense, what percent of players take the perfectly-most-efficient number of steps to get good weapons? Almost none. (Probably even the person who wrote that Reddit guide doesn’t adhere to it perfectly and still makes the occasional mistake.)
So then (A) clearly it involves skill (strategic skill) and (B) clearly it’s deep enough that the vast majority of players aren’t taking the perfect most-efficient steps to each new item they craft, so there’s room for those players to improve their skill.
Well those are good traits for a game to have!