yes well ... the echo i speak of is the 'echo' from the echoproject
https://echoproject.itch.io/echo
and yes indeed you don't need choices to tell a story but it really does depend on the story that is to be told.
giving the player choice , even a seemingly meaningless choice , is something that can cause the player to become invested in the story if they already where not.
hopefully if they remove the choices from the game they'll at least keep the questioning at the beginning where you input the name XD i named my character Zero.