One should never segue from where one is at currently to literally just that same place, that’s so boring and pointless just think of a better way of not solving [core narrative objective] than having it solved and then deus ex machina unresolving it, or think of a new objective after solving the first. Resetting progression is the laziest and least interesting way one can possibly approach things.

Agreed. It’s a pretty solid rule of writing that one should have each goal completion happen once and only once if at all possible.

I hate reset-happy writing. It’s dull and frustrating.