Can MIDI be made less percussive?

If it’s the impact of the plectrum hitting the guitar string you are trying to reduce,
Paul-L’s DeClicker plugin for Audacity will do that , see … https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283/1 , ( even though it wasn’t designed for that purpose ).