I played my game with the updates. Have you sped it up? The bugs whipped around before I could even look at them. Even the unicorn! I like watching them. It's the best part. I don't mind the time they take. Sorry but I prefer when it was slow. I thought you had it exactly right with the 4x. Now it's so fast on 1x I can't get there before it's gone. Maybe it's just my game.
I like the cleaning because you get to see them close up. Not sure why it needs it, but fine. It disappeared before I was finished, unfortunately. Everything just so fast! I love the atlas! That's interesting to look at. I hope it's blank at the start and each new specimen adds to it. I've got everything already so I can't tell.
Looking forward to your progress.
One small point - you say the bite upgrade the bugs remove 'pixels', in real life they do, but for emersion purposes, wouldn't it be more fitting for the narrative to be told they remove more soft tissue?