Oh, that's good feedback! Didn't think about the new text dragging the whole thing down...
From the sound of you getting the "I'm busy" feedback, I think you might have been influencing the character, but he just hadn't gotten to it on the queue yet. Still annoying! A stretch goal I had was to make additional suggestions to do an action move that action up in the queue, or otherwise have more immediate action taken by the character, which I think would have made it feel better.
Thanks for playing!