But, what if you don't play as the Avengers and it's a Thanos driven story?

Widescreen lens at a shallow angle dramatically alters the presentation. I wish more would do it this way.

It works. I do this at home during practice to see geometry from a first person POV. All it takes is a rolling rig that places the camera right above the apron. Unless someone is literally leaning on the pin or is 3 feet tall, it's not in the way.

It's not a "true" first person POV, we'd need to GoPro up for that to be relevant to our heights. Though I suppose theoretically one could build a rig with an adjustable camera that sits just above the players head for an angled overhead view, don't know the utility for that POV though.

No, the camera is directly above the apron, but can be adjusted further back to sit above the lockbar if there's no action button to worry about or even rotated side to side to catch different angles of the playfield. Is really dependent on lens being used. I've built 2 prototype rigs, but I'm refining it more. Realistically I think the minimum height until view gets obstructed is 4'5" or around there. But this isn't a tripod sitting in front of the pin, that would just be obstructive.

Worked for me

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Outlanes are open, rubbers are off.

I have different strategies for different set ups. The low hanging fruit strategy that nearly anyone can do is to focus on portal locks to 2x-3x your mode scores, learn to beat Reality gem, place gem on left spinner, start ripping gamma ray spins for 4-5x (40-175 million), while also playing through other gem quests or super modes.

That's just the wire for the external pinstadiums on it. My game room is really dark and dark playfields are a pet peeve of mine.