Hey, thanks so much for playing!
I completely agree on basically all counts - I have an update to the game locked and loaded that smooths over some of the more confusing aspects of the existing world layout, but in reality have plans to take the fundamentals here and completely redo the level progression from the ground up. Go figure when you start level design with a bit over a week left in the jam you end up making some pretty big mistakes 😅
World being too big is a point I totally agree with, and I had wanted to add boostpads but simply ran out of time. I super appreciate you taking the time to play through the game, hope you'll give the updated version a shot once I upload it after the judging period closes, and really I hope to blow you away with a bigger and better version somewhere down the line 😃