At the very least, the world has to interesting enough that travel from point A to point B is not boring. Good examples are RDR2, where the world has enough activity that it was fun to just travel. Another one is Cyberpunk 2077. Night City is so beautifully realized that I cannot help but not use fast travel and instead drive everywhere.
Also as others have pointed out. Spider-man’s traversal is so much fun that it is almost criminal to use fast travel.
Desperate much, Anthropic ? Man, imagine marketing your product using fear. I mean, everyone does it using FOMO, but an entire industry built on fear. I feel we will studying this era with much interest for quite sometime.