I really dig the PBTA model.
The door is not trapped.
The player is suspicious of the door.
The player rolls to determine if the door is trapped.
On a failure, it turns out the door was trapped and now there are interesting consequences.
On a success, it turns out that the door was trapped and the player feels good about avoiding the consequences.

Every outcome is inherently more interesting.

A Druid PC of mine wanted to determine if his bear form can cross a large gap so I had him roll WIS - he rolled a 5 - I said "you're confident you can jump that gap"

He jumped. He fell.

Reminds me of the inanimate skeleton my players encountered. It had been put in armour and propped up by leaning it against a spear like it was guarding the door, so my players spent 15 minutes trying to guage how much of a threat it was before eventually deciding to all charge it at once. The battle was as quick as it was embarrassing.

Rogue rolls a 3

"There doesn't seem to be any traps..."

The Rogue:

I roll all perception, investigation, trap searching, insight & etc behind the screen. So they gotta trust what they get. I sometimes will do a wink and a nod if they do really well, but also sometimes when it's a crit fail. I think it also works well because we're playing a horror game, and a lot of horror involves the unknown and not being sure about your senses.

Catch me literally always falling for this as a player

I always do this. It's a lot of fun to see the players scheming over a regular wall or door or whatever

My sleepy ass thought the post was about Direct Messaging someone “so you touch the object?”

I've played a lot of Barbarians and Paladins, my answer is always "fuck yah I touched it".

A dead PC is a powerful motivation for your party, especially if you were loved.

Always "Yes, and" your DM.

Y'all need more wizards around that used permanency more often. I'll pay another wizard the guild fee for them to give me a permanent detect magic, detect traps, and comprehend languages for the early game.

I feel like I could run a game pretty decently (I wrote and ran a one-shot; nothing else), I just have no players :/

“It’s a perfectly normal chest”

I do rolls for the player, in secret, if the outcome of that roll is also unknown to you. For example, if you roll a 2 on perception, you aren't going to know you missed something. So I rolled and hit you with the 'ole "You see a room."