Thinking of pinball as a sport, I’ve gotten myself out of the bad habit of restarting first poor ball drains. When teeing off in a game of golf and the first shot is bad, should I just re-hit another ball before advancing down the fairway? And then put down another ball if the next shot is poor too? When bowling should we hit game reset when the first ball happens to be a gutter ball or only hits one or two pins?

No, it’s a big part of the sport to see how well we recover on the next ball shot. Same applies to the game of pinball, imo. No difference, as pinball is a ball and bat sport on a regulation size PF. Objectives are different on each game, just as golf courses have different layouts and objectives too. Only consistent game setup is bowling, but hitting reset because of a gutter ball could get expensive, lol. So I’ve dumped that bad habit and greatly improved my game of pinball, just like I’ve done on golf and bowling.