You got caught in the Snail Craze haha!
We tried our best with balance to provide high tension races, and leave the player at the edge of their seat until the finish line! And we agree, we wanted to add so much more that the player could do or interact either in silly ways or gameplay affecting ways, but that was just too much feature creep for a 2 man team with the time we could pour in unfortunately, so we kept things tight to the core loop !
Happy to hear you enjoyed it and thank you !