Narrow-Wide is not just for extreme hardcore mega riding off road downhill XXXTREMENESS, it is to help chain retention and that is helpful anywhere. Sure you can get away without it, there are folks who have but it is sure nice to have a little extra protection without having to use an additional device. It is not like a narrow wide chainring is going to cause issues and shift ramps and pins aren't needed if you are running 1x so you might find a better more useful selection going to 1x specific stuff which is usually some form of chain retaining single ring.

SRAM, RaceFace (which I am currently using), Wolf Tooth (who make excellent stuff), Absolute Black, Blackspire and probably some others I missed, who make Narrow-Wide rings or similar chain retaining single rings in 130 bcd! Like I said I have been using the Race Face N/W ring on my 1X9 set up and it is fantastic no dropped chains (happened a couple times in the 1x7 guise that bike started in with a non-NW chainring but there could be some other factors) I also happily use a Shimano N/W ring on my mountain bike and I am not an extreme rider at all, overly cautious and not great mountain biker sure.

Off the original topic but riffing on things mentioned above:
Also just as of note riding off road doesn't have to be extreme and extreme isn't always a good description of anything unless it truly is. Everyone needs a chain that doesn't come off and a drivetrain that shifts decently and all that sort of jazz it doesn't require extremity to be needed even if what was mentioned was actually extreme. I do often see in cycling discussions it seems like you can only either be puttering along in the neighborhood on a cruiser bike or doing extreme hardcore downhill or Tour de France road racing and that just simply isn't true. There are plenty of different levels to cycling and different disciplines and I find that generally if you are doing "extreme" stuff or racing you probably aren't going to hang around here, not saying you can't but those who dedicate their life to serious racing are generally not coming to a rinky-dink bike forum to ask should I buy this brake caliper or is my bike good enough or wet or dry lube, they have sponsors and such and they have a whole team and probably don't need us. Now I love this forum as I am sure many of you who are reading this so I mean "rinky-dink" in the most endearing of terms and yes some folks here have raced or done professional mechanic work for teams but in the heat of their career it is unlikely.