Well not really, resource conservation is not affected because you'd keep it even if you retried, or reloaded - that state would be saved and in theory you could still be screwed if you didn't save enough resources for the fight. Risk management is a skill that can only be learned by knowing what the risks are. Which frankly is impossible by telling people to just play on safe mode.
One can argue safe takes literally everything away from the game, so why aren't you asking for that to be removed too?
Plus, it's an option, why are people so against options? If it allows more people to enjoy a game, then that's great. I won't use it, I've been enjoying SMT games perfectly fine for over a decade, but if more people play the game then more can be made and I can then also enjoy them more.
I don't think you quite understood what I meant with the resources.
Every encounter in SMT is supposed to drain your resources i.e. HP and SP more so than they're supposed to kill you. They do so either by attacking you or by having you attacking them more than nessecary, if you give the player the option to reload the fight he can just reroll the fight over and over again until he rolled his desired outcome.
You know which risks you are taking, the risk of losing everything you've achieved since your last save.
These two things in combination are supposed to make you consider wether you, the player who is low on hp, sp and items want to press on or not. You can play it safe, leave the dungeon, heal up and come back another day or enter the risk reward area of pressing on.
If you press on, you risk dying and having to reload from the last safe point (which is given the abundance of saferooms already hardly a risk, but apparently some people in here are not able to use them) but you can obtain the reward of not having to leave and come back, ultimately saving you a day worth of ingame time as well as the money you would've wasted on healing.
It's kinda funny that you mention the removal of saferooms, because in fact they're already an acknowledgement of the more casual audience that is playing it for the friendos more so than the actual dungeon crawling.
They're one of the major reasons why persona 5 is so, so much easier than the past games let alone nocturne, as you barely ever end up being forced to make hard decisions and suffer their hard consequences.
And unlike what some people say, options don't exist in a vacuum. They have to be accounted and be designed for. If you give the player an option you have to design your game around it for it to stay an engaging experience, which will inevitably also affect the experience of those that don't use them.
Play nocturne on an emulator with save function and see how much of a cakewalk it becomes. That is something the developers would need to consider when designing the game if it were an official feature, for example by raising the difficulty in other areas such as the individual fights, but if you do that, this game that is already hard for people who play it normally becomes even harder.
Of course you could say "then why don't they make different difficulty level for different options" and the simple answer would be that this would cost a lot more money and end with every individual difficulty option being less thoughtful designed the more you got of them.
And completely unrelated to anything of the above, if you really can't stand having to redo some parts of a game because of dying, maybe you're not enjoying the actual gameplay as much as you think you are. Just a thing to consider for people that think dying in a game is a waste of time.
