So glad you loved it!
Very understandable about the back-and-forth —
We wanted some reason for the player to more thoroughly engage with the transition/home environment. Having the boxes turn to garbage (they were going to turn into garbage bags but this asset remained unused due to time) and then having new equivalent boxes re-spawn around the home was our way to incentivize that! It wasn't a perfect solution by any means... But I'm sure a polished version could smooth out some of the rough edges. Maybe one day!