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Oh my goodness... your points 1 & 2 struck so close to home!! 

I knew I needed a dialogue system so I started from scratch with Brackeys tutorial on a basic dialogue. That got me about 10% of what I wanted to accomplish so I spent 2-3 more days building on it to work for my team's game. That was 2-3 days I didn't have to spent on such a small part of the overall project. I'm happy I had Josh stream my game though where I learned about the Unity asset called Fungus to make dialogue systems easier. Looking at overhauling my game with Fungus now (gross name lol.)

I learned the day before deadline how to export my project to game, but I was stressing until the last minute getting a working webGL build which sadly I never fixed in time. 

And here's the link to Fungus if you're still interested in learning it for dialogue system implementation:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/fungus-34184

Glad to know I'm not the only one! You were smart and had the forethought to look at how to export your game beforehand. I kid you not, my literal thought process began and ended with "Yeah, I'll just submit it at 9:50 day of" for the entirety of the project. At no point until the final 2 minutes before the submission deadline did it cross my mind that "I have absolutely no idea how to do this", and thus my next though was "I am completely and utterly screwed".  I also need to get way better at utilizing third party public assets (code snippets or plugins like Fungus) instead of building it all out myself; even though doing it ourselves is more fun for me and my team, jams are probably the worst environment to DIY because of the time crunch. On the bright side, it was better to learn all this my first time and build good habits for Vimjam 2021 than to build bad ones, so it all turned out well in the end.