I'm back after the update! and I can say the game feels way smoother now. We all love stacking buffs on buffs on buffs, and it adds to the risk-reward of spending more days to stack more buffs for longterm benefit, or actually hunting for crinchures to make progress.
Baking also helps a lot for refining what you want, allowing you to spend some days gathering to hopefully skip more days of searching.
I did get all crinchures this time around! I am horrified by the implications of them becoming a weapon! why do we need so many swords I can only use like two at a time!