You aren't losing when you click... keep clicking and it will unlock more options as the number goes up. Hover over any element for a brief description. the trust and Obscurity will fluctuate and affect score but never cause it to go down. You cannot lose and the game pace is determined by you. After 1mil submit a high score and then try to get it higher... if it's taking too long just let it idle or close out and when you come back you'll get points for your away time at a reduced score rate. It's meant to be kinda cryptic, but not confusing. I hope you'll give it another try.
Trust goes down when you click, so an outside auto clicker will keep it at zero.. it shouldn't hurt your signal velocity much. Trust and Obscurity get averaged to arrive at a final multiplier. And the value is clamped so it can't zero out your score. At higher levels it's much easier to keep both stats higher, leading to better signal velocity. I don't use an external autoclicker so I never tested it that way, I probably should have.