Less effortless you say. In English that would mean more effort. If some thing or object allowed any task to be completed with less effort that would be said to be more effortless.
Some of the other stuff said about shifting, reverse, gates, going "too far" in a gate is pretty ripe also.
badseed1 you sound like you're shooting blanks out of left field, at an invisible target, are from the UK?
Wait . . . did I stumble onto a QAnon forum?