.... This is what we call poor design.
If you gonna make something optional... don't make the main audience feel like they missed out on something... which that does.
And a fix would be quite simple to, just have a simple opt in question, and a if statement and boom, the counter is now 7/7 for most players.
And even has a nifty warning at the start too
Like seriously.... you don't want to punish players for not wanting to see content they hate.
This ain't what they mean when they talk about punishing mechanics XD