Thank you so much for playing the game. Wow , I admire your dedication!
For the inspiration, I did take inspiration from the game called You're just imagining it here on itch. It has a sort of stat trading, but the gameplay is more of a narration on the developer's experience. As far as I know, you only have one ending there.
I wanted to make believable emergent endings based on your choices and I created an automated simulation to balance the parameters. You can maybe read some of it from my devlog. :)