How is condensing with menus worse than undiscoverable gestures and button rituals? IMO it's far worse when the cow paths are so heavily paved you have to pay

How is condensing with menus worse than undiscoverable gestures and button rituals? IMO it's far worse when the cow paths are so heavily paved you have to pay tolls to access anything else. Or even explicitly hidden capabilities requiring Konami-code-esque incantations in some misguided effort to give the kids something to brag about to their friends.