Thank you so much for the well-thought out feedback, and thanks for playing. There is definitely a lot of halfbaked parts of the game, it turned into a rush job near the end (I got too much feature creep).
I'm impressed you got as far as you did, considering the frustrating parts!
Yes balance needs work. Yes, there should be tooltips for qualia and buffer in game. Yes, the way the shop blocks tower placement is very silly. Yes, a fast forward is a good idea. I will have to test if I accidentally broke regen somehow.