I don't want to pretend quake or other games I like don't have that, for example dueling in quake required memorization of maps and such, it's closer to a spectrum (or a linear combination of the skills) but the speedrun type of games, especially skill platformers like Celeste for example really lean heavily on the other aspect of play. Others have pointed out other games like fortnite have this more improvision emphasis which I didn't know because I haven't played it, so may be it isn't as bad as I feel it is as of late, I might just not be playing the right games.