First of all thank you for the long review! But if anything your review has maybe pointed out a bigger flaw in my game lol (which is a bad tutorial), so when you buff an enemy, you become them, you'll gain everything they had, but the buffs you gave them you'll also get with them
So think of enemies like a template that you can become but you can choose what additions you want with that template to make it better.
Not being able to see the enemy far away is the universal issue everyone has and I agree with too, I just couldn't figure out a good solution during the jam (I wasn't able to zoom out normally due to a pixel perfect cam), of course that's on me and I'd like to find a solution to that one day!
But seriously, thank you for the long review and I'm glad to hear you spent so much time on it, it means a lot!