Wow, thank you so much for the in-depth comment! This is SO useful, I think if we expand this game I will definitely look into these concepts and study level design a lot more. It’s a fascinating concept to me but for some reason I can never find resources that break down some principles as clearly as you did. Many YouTube videos focus on environmental design (which I think is something else entirely) rather than map layout and that’s been a frustrating discovery haha.
I know there’s a website called the Level Design Book or something like that. Next step for me is to read into that!