You are not the only one, who got confused at first. I have to figure out how to improve it. I'm glad you liked it otherwise.
To me, it was thinking the “goals” would progress when clicked on. I’m not sure if it’s a layout that might change how that works. Or if a popup or even slight notification, to indicate why it looks like it’s “trying to do something, but failing”. I hope this can help understand where you might want to take that aspect. It felt, “it looks like it’s doing something, but not working for me,” and I’m glad I explored more to find it.
I’ve been playing Syberia a point and click adventure… There’s a lot of, “If that’s going to work, it looks like I need something different,” type internal dialogue.