Thanks for the encouragement. In general I prefer to figure all these things out on my own, but I'm sure I already partly spoiled what you're talking about by scrolling too far down in the comments anyway. Guess I just ran out of patience, but like I said I'm not mad.
In terms of how long it'll take me to get around to trying again, if ever, you can blame pathological demand avoidance for me simply not wanting to do things on anyone's time frame including my own. This game will probably be preserved for most of the rest of my life, so there's a decent chance I'll revisit it eventually, but my main obsessions right now are quite unrelated.