You aren't wrong. I spent the first few hundred hours of the game not knowing about the skill drain and not worrying. But now i do know, and i know it makes a difference and I know that I had 93 run dozens of hours of progression ago and now I have 77. It just needs to be less punishing. If it's bad enough I need to ignore an integral game mechanic to not want to rage quit, maybe it should be tweaked.