Ivory Necklace Theft

Does anyone feel like the game pushes us to have the Ivory Necklace stolen? Basically if we want to unlock all costumes in the forest shop and hardcore grind stats with Gwylan, the necklace would have to be taken away one way or another. This is unlike any other events or LI interaction that changes hard world corruption before. For example, with Sydney, you can either choose to keep them pure or corrupt them and still get to be their wooby beloved. Or with the Hawk Tower special hunt, the game encourage you to steal that Lure if you want to have a nice home with Great Hawk and doing so improves the world corruption. Or with the Bell and Spear, those events actually hinted that "if you let them get away with this bad shit gonna happen".

But then the forest shop requires you to stomp on little IW's uwu pmo heart so it can go craycray with us. There are also important dialogues locked behind the Wraith moving to haunting stage. So, like, does anybody feels like it's inevitable so that the plot could progress?

With that side note: on my current save I actually stole the necklace out of spite after IW trolled me for shit n giggles while me being in strip clup at 3 in the morning whoring my ass of so I don't need its necklace. Never been prouder of myself tbh Blood Moon got nothing on me.