I guess it mainly became an issue because the groups of three regular hyena's only started to constantly use daze after I got out of the underground passage so by that point I'd already saved over previous saves n didn't really have a way to fall back on an earlier save to where I wasn't one away from entering the gone state.
Yeah, issues with that attack aside, always rotate saves, especially in an RPG. I TRY not to do anything super cheap, but the nature of the game format (branching paths for example) means it's very possible to get caught in a situation you didn't expect and might not be aiming for. Always good to have a rewind option. Helps with scene collection too.