Yeah. Making episodic play matter in the big picture feels like a Best Practice that hardly ever gets discussed as such in rules texts. Prrrrobably because it’s strictly a matter of taste, and plenty of Cheetos-chomping casuals are perfectly happy executing little discrete episodes of fun.
If getting mainstream players to even acknowledge fictional positioning is a thing within a single session is a tough carry, I can imagine getting folks to even remember events from session to session is harder than we care to admit.