i managed to push through up till Qi, and just like the rest of the fucking game, NOTHING IS PERSISTENT. Qi is the 1 thing that i would ABSOLUTELY expect to persist between runs, but it dosent, AND its not even a measurement of power. its just a resource to use on OTHER skills to increase limits that you dont even show us in the first place, and as a counter to start the "fuck you game over" screen. im done here. im not sure what AI driven shit is fueling this nonsense, but not real human makes these kind of braindead choices to have NOTHING have any effect on anything else and everything be just a pointless time sink that unlocks other pointless time sinks to unlock other pointless time sinks.
literally NOTHING has any fucking purpose aside from unlocking the next wall.