Yep! That's intended, and there's a little bit of counterweight to it. You can push your number super high with a friend's help, but this means you will get flattened when an obstacle does not match your nature. So you're incentivized to cooperate sometimes---and more often if you're in an environment that doesn't match your nature. Meanwhile your friend has a higher incentive to oppose you when the environment matches their nature---except, they might want you to cooperate in the future, so there's push and pull.