Oh wow! Ok, just updated my review from 4 to 5 stars, this is just perfect now!
(When you mentioned QoL fixes, I thought maybe you made paying the taxes less of a pain, but nope, it's still slow and annoying, and I absolutely love that! Not because it's fun, but because it isn't. It takes guts to put in a deliberately anti-QoL feature.
Manually counting out the coins makes the player viscerally feel the character's frustration at giving up more and more of their hard-earned wealth at the end of each loop. It feels like a bit of good-natured trolling from the developer, and I appreciate the commitment to that design choice!)