I also tried long-resting as little as possible in my first playthrough. I don't think I realized how much I was missing until I read all the stuff here on these forums. If this were the final release and I was doing that, I have no idea how much content I'd ultimately miss before I figured it out. And that is really bad. I think long rests can be argued to be the worst-implemented system in the game. There are folks that argue "if you don't like the Larian homebrew, just don't use them" and while I think that's a flawed approach, you can in theory not do that. But if you want to limit yourself with long rests, then you're straight up punished by losing out on story content.
