I mean trusting that the designer has done the hard work to ensure the material is worthy of your time and emotional investment.

I mean trusting that the participants are equipped to treat the material respectfully.

When you look at the vast majority of gaming stuff, mainstream empowerment fantasy, it’s pretty much all trust-agnostic. When your game is entirely about make believe, you’re not risking much. Same on the player side, and I think it’s apparent why physics-centered resolution is, by extension, more palatable than systems where credibility (trust in your fellow players, trust that the designer is framing things well) is not necessary.