Agreed. Trying to pack as much as I could in was kinda my goal from the outset, as a personal challenge. But by the same token you're absolutely correct that as a product, the same story would work better in a longer format.
The question is whether I should do that and leave the jam version as a free PDF to support a more fleshed out zine, or just do lighter revisions on the trifold and move on to a zine as my next project, maybe something intersecting with this a bit. Still mulling that over.