Freedom carries the inner inclination to respond... we call it love. Freedom is not enslavement to random whim. We might eat apple pie or pumpkin pie by freedom, but we won’t eat poisons.
I think the distinction you have made is a warning about what you need to look at. Be careful of “enslavement to rules.”
Yeah, I get that a lot. Funny how Christians are 'free' to do anything at all, except keep Torah.