Thank you for playing the game TWICE! It means that there is a loop here that has the potential to expand and be more fun :) . A great criticism on the wood chopping, will take a look into that and see how to improve it. I agree that it does slightly lock you out of a flow of sort because you have to click at individual points instead of having a queue that will take your inputs into consideration. Like the hold to chop or maybe even hold to charge axe and clear the tree altogether :D. Will check with the team on the best approach.
The sound effect updates are on the way and will probably be sometime this month as we get around to it. Also a fair point on the blizzard and tension, will note that.
Thank you again!