Hey! As always, thanks for your wonderfully detailed comments :)
Yeah we found that changing the way the tier 2 biomes are introduced really helped the difficulty curve :)
It's not necessarily a problem if you can go straight to restoring the weather if you know what you're doing. It's not going to be that easy for first time players. But we'll think about alternative ways to gate it.
We're also interested in exploring other power options like you mentioned, more on that another time though.
As for the bugs, thanks for those!
Glad you've been enjoying the game and hope to see you around some more <3