They are catering ultimates to casuals like they did with Elden Ring.

[Droxybrobotnik]

If prog is "wasting time" then let's put checkpoints after every single mechanic so people can be done with Ultimates faster than they're done with Savage.

While this specific checkpoint is rather inoffensive, if not weird because... The phase is so short and easy there isn't a lot of time to waste on it, it's not a good logic because fully exploiting the argument would change the target demographic of Ultimate.

But they are progging. Every time someone needs to go out and repair or buy more food/tinctures the first part has to be redone, and if you are having troubles passing it again then you are obviously not yet ready and need to train more. Checkpoints only exists so you don't need to redo things you don't need more practice in because of a tiny mistake.