The droning noise was annoying so I tried deactivating it via menu, and it told me that the progress will be saved, but there was no volume sliders and when I got back into the game all nodes were deleted and I was too poor to buy new ones.
Fixed!
You can review the patch notes here: https://danhicks853.itch.io/huebound/devlog/1399453/the-please-stop-the-humming-update