During the Wednesday, April 29, episode, popular YouTuber and longtime “Survivor” fan MrBeast stopped by to orchestrate a game mechanic he devised himself. The players unleashed the twist during the “Survivor” auction reward challenge, but they didn’t learn what it entailed until tribal council.

One player had to flip a coin and call out which side it would land on. If they called it right, they’d win an immunity idol and safety at that night’s tribal, and also increase the “Survivor 50” prize pot from $1 million to a whopping $2 million. But if they called it wrong, they’d be eliminated from the game.

The players didn’t have the option of refusing MrBeast’s high-risk, high-reward offer. If no one volunteered to flip the coin, they’d have to draw rocks, and one person would be forced to take the risk.

Luckily for his fellow players, Rick Devens enthusiastically volunteered. He knew his back was against the wall after pulling a stunt with a fake idol at the last tribal. The gamble paid off, earning Devens his safety and giving him new life in the game. The players then scrambled to discuss who to vote out instead. Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick’s torch was ultimately snuffed.

The way MrBeast’s twist played out, no one was eliminated from “Survivor 50” because of a coin flip. But it could’ve easily gone a different way, which left a sour taste in some fans’ mouths.

One Reddit user argued that the twist “is very bad from a design perspective and what it means for future seasons.” The viewer expressed fear that “Survivor” host Jeff Probst will mistake “everyone’s collective relief that Devens won the flip” for an endorsement of replacing strategy with chance.

At its best, “Survivor” is a game where you can get yourself out of any tight spot with enough intelligence, ingenuity and persuasive powers. There was no such opportunity with the coin flip twist, especially because there was no choice to forgo the risk.

Yes, the coin flip was Devens’ best chance of staying this week. But what if MrBeast had showed up a different tribal, when the target wasn’t aware of their impending doom? What if no one volunteered, the players went to rocks and someone who wasn’t in any danger went home because of pure bad luck?

“I hate that they would force someone to flip it,” one fan argued via Reddit. “What’s wrong with just having it sit at tribal until someone decides to run for it. Just leave it [to] sit there until final six, eventually someone will decide it’s worth the risk.”

Similar frustrations arose after last week’s twist, which forced Christian Hubicki to tell his competitors that he had to vote for himself at tribal.

“Having to announce it, it takes away sort of the ambiguity of the mystery of it because it’s like a printed note. So, it took away a lot of options, right?” Hubicki told Entertainment Weekly after the episode aired. He explained that he would’ve appreciated the opportunity to lie about his disadvantage.

“I think that some of the advantages and disadvantages, what’s most fun is when they give the player choice of what to do with them,” he continued. “So, I would’ve appreciated a choice.”

The better twists of the season left room for strategy. Both the blood moon triple elimination and the double elimination, where players had to vote out a pair, preserved the core mechanics of the game. No matter what twists or disadvantages are thrown at you, there should always be a path to make your own luck on “Survivor.”