Thank you for playing! I expect people that are familiar with StS or FTL (which were a big inspiration for us) to find the game easier, while people that didnt play that type of game to find it more challenging. It was really hard to balance also considering people will play for ~10 minutes during the jam so we wanted to make sure everyone can enjoy the full experience :D.
The ability creep, like you mentioned was really tempting, especially because this was our first game and first jam :D so we had to make sure we dont overextend.