Thanks, that's a very succinct way of putting my original idea. It was well put in (one of the) the ending(s) of Evangelion, where the protagonist Shinji learn

Thanks, that's a very succinct way of putting my original idea. It was well put in (one of the) the ending(s) of Evangelion, where the protagonist Shinji learns that gravity, a constraint that removes a degree of freedom, also gives him freedom by providing a surface upon which he can walk; without the constraint, he would actually be less free.