Thank you for playing and for sending additional feedback in game, it helps more than you know!
"Has potential, but a fair bit to improve" is honestly the right (and happy) read of where this playtest is. The weekly Friday patches fix balance issues and bugs, but the bigger plan is to get this into a game engine and really polish it for an early 2027 Steam EA release.
Also, if anything bugged you more than the rest, let me know and I can dig in.