Thanks a lot for the kind words and even more so for recommending the game to someone else - that is high praise.
With the bars - I dont wanna spoil - but the idea was that it would be fun if the same bar was used in different ways, like initially you are filling it with water and then something different. Obviously in the finished game - the 2nd bar doesn't really do anything other than track "progress" and i can see that being confusing - it was originally meant to like actually have some mechanical relevance - like spending it to open doors or something.
Thanks for playing.