Thanks for the feedback UltimateWalrus! Appreciate it a lot and yea, communicating specific things just kind of fell out of scope I think. The snap is the most reliable way to deal with the birds in this version, albeit we kind of regret doing so afterwards since it led to balance issues.
We're definitely gonna try and balance stuff out more when we continue working on this, since we do see a lot of potential in it ourselves! If that does happen, I'd hope to see you give that version a shot! Either way, thank you for the kind words regardless :)