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Whoever decided that "hold to interact" was to be the new default needs shot.
It works when building tension, or even for showing a character putting effort into an action, but when I need to hold a fucking button for 5 seconds just to have random junk magically teleported into my pockets, it kills my want to interact with the world.
Fuck you, David Cage. I don't think you're the progenitor, but you certainly abuse the shit out of it as a mechanic, and your reign of terror shoulda ended with Indigo Prophecy.
While I mostly agreed another good application would be survival/crafting games with limited inventory. Or even games like Skyrim where you can put almost every object into your inventory.
But yeah it's overused.
With survival/crafting, I tend to lump them in with tension-builders. Even in the calm ones, it's that extra bit of time, that little effort that only takes seconds but builds up into your whole day. It fits the experience, you're facing time as much as your own needs and desires.