This was an interesting play! We've tried the "Don't cut the tree" seed, and there were a few spots where we were a little confused by the wording, but we ended up coming up with a pretty meaningful story.
Yeah - it was mainly the instructions in the first part of the second half, at the end of the day, where we didn't know what we were supposed to be doing. Sorry, I don't know how to talk about it without spoilers and I don't have energy to do debugging.