I thought requiring 2 SR before 1 LR was smart - until someone brought it up that:
a. You can just hit both SR's and then LR without restraint, so the only thing that does is add 2 more clicks.
b. What happens if you spent all your spells slots, need an LR, but you can only use SR - like right before going against the Gith patrol. Could you get soft locked?
And Max is right. There's a big difference between Solasta and BG3 rest system. Random Encounters, linear maps with specific long rest locations, and food all limit long rest in that game. It works for that game, but BG3, not so much because you have 25+ hours of content on the same map location.
Food alone would work, but only if they severely limit it in comparison to what they dole out right now AND they'd have to somehow limit what you can buy at the vendors because later you will have enough money to buy endless food AND they would have to scrap Goodberry and Create Food spells AND they would probably have to scrap the Send to Camp function so that you can't carry too much food on you or it encumbers you.
Even if they did, it wouldn't matter because they would have to add some source of infinite food anyway to prevent a soft lock.
Thus, a limited rest would at best be slightly impeded.
