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It’s not necessarily because it makes them harder that it’s a good choice, it’s because it makes the challenges more certain/unavoidable/unrelenting. Each encounter has a specific pace that can’t be interrupted for you to wrap your head around it and come up with strategies or whatever. You’ve just gotta take it as it comes.
It works well because there are plenty of safe areas where the game may as well be paused anyway. And 99% of the time no new enemies are going to arrive once you’ve killed the ones around you so if you’re not in combat it’s, again, effectively paused anyway.
Abolish copyright law, it does nothing but stymie creativity