Is this proposition of “essentialistic” following on from your comment about “time-space” being “a 4D object”?
A 4D object that has existence not only across all of each spatial dimension but across all of a temporal one too is not hard to imagine, at least in the abstract, though it’s a problem to reconcile thinking of all time at any one given time. One would rather be required to think of either one time at one given time, as we do normally, or somehow all time across all times - to be perfectly consistent concerning this 4D object. Even regardless of your future, if you accept yourself as having been born at any one time, you don’t exist across times before then in order to perceive all time at all times. Or perhaps I’m still being too Deterministic here?
Is “limited choice” a separate point to the “Essentialistic” worldview? At least within Determinism, it seems untenable to suggest there can be situations that are limited enough to not cause significant change to the way things are. Particularly with quantum considerations that involve phenomena like entanglement that is not constrained by distance, but also with wave/particle behaviour above the quantum realm being subject to the chaos theory principle of “sensitivity to initial conditions”, where even the slightest difference of initial conditions has an exponentially significant impact on changing subsequent events. I’m not sure that an “Essentialistic” worldview can improve upon all the empirical evidence that supports this Deterministic worldview. It needs fleshing out, but even then, to put things in terms that defy causation is somewhat counter to the nature of understanding itself: one understands something to the extent that they know what causes what, no?