That can be a great option for meeting players where they’re at, if they’re more about running a cosy commerce sim in your genre fiction TTRPG. Either way though you ignore a ‘refusal of the call’ moment at your own peril. It needs to be addressed, but how is the interesting bit!
I prefer the “big bad just set up the new walmart in your town that’s destroying local businesses and has paid off the guards” approach.
That can be a great option for meeting players where they’re at, if they’re more about running a cosy commerce sim in your genre fiction TTRPG. Either way though you ignore a ‘refusal of the call’ moment at your own peril. It needs to be addressed, but how is the interesting bit!