How often do you save-scum?

I am not above it, some games would be extremely frustrating otherwise, try beating a Fire Emblem without save states, not the recent ones, but older titles, games like Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, imagine you have been playing a map for 2.5 hours, having a perfect battle, and then you get careless around the boss and one of your characters dies ==> reload/restart the whole level again. Ugh, no, I no longer have the time or the patience for this. The perma death and randomized stat growths make it almost mandatory to save-scum, the games are difficult enough as they're, you don't want to deal with lackluster characters just because the Rng keeps screwing you over.

Same for pick-pocketing in Baldur's Gate, a fail (highly likely) means everyone in the area will attack you.

Anyway, these were just some examples, I also remember save-scumming a lot in the first Eschalon game, due to randomized loot, you could get a worthless 1 Gold junk item or an awesome +4/+5 enchanted armor/weapon with a value of 1500 G in the same chest. In the sequel, Eschalon : Book II, they had an option to start with loot that would be generated at the beginning of the game and the content won't change unless you start a new game, ticked it and had a much better, smoother experience overall.

As for story-driven games, I try to live with the consequences of my choices as much as possible, but sometimes I really don't like the outcome and have to reload. only to discover, more often than not, that X character dies no matter what and certain outcomes can't be avoided