Without that, you have a much bigger solution space to search for the optimal approach. And you likely wouldn't even want that optional solution anyways: if your humanoid robots have sufficiently strong actors, optional solution for, to pick a simple example, navigating a staircase would likely be vertically scaling up the handrails through the slot in the middle. That might save staircase capacity and a tiny amount of battery (better aerodynamics!) but it would certainly ruin any humanoid qualities.