Thank you for the detailed review, we really appreciate it!
We were bug fixing with the entrance to the town hall (I like people's different names for it, we forgot to say what it was in game!) right up until the end of the jam, but it sounds like it's still unreliable. Highlight around searchable and interactable items is something we would do in future.
Animation is also something we didn't get around to, but would do in future. We tried a simple version but it didn't work very well so we thought unanimated was best.
And yes, we thought asking for times was a good way to encourage engagement. And it saves us coding complicated analytics to see how long people are taking!