Understanding Another Zugzwang

To win a game, if the players are allowed to skip as many moves as they want, would require a huge difference in the level of the players. Basically it means that if Anand and Carlsen play each other, probably nobody is ever going to win. It is  suspected that it would even be tough for either of them to beat a 2300 under such rules. It has been thought a little artificial that so many positions are decided by just this – that a player is forced to move, even if he doesn’t want to, per the rules. In a real battle, you can stand still. You can wait for your enemy to come, or refuse to relinquish your position. In chess, there are positions where a player loses because his king has to step back and forth, Kg8-h8-g8-h8, etc; when he would rather just sit there. So does this make something in our game a little artificial?