Thanks for the kind words and thanks for playing!
You're right -- there isn't much of a gameplay point to posting to Doodlebug. We do hope that players will use it as a way to track down the last bug or two (looking at others' posts for hints), or maybe as a quick break from hunting -- but we can't predict what players will use it for, so we didn't want to lean too hard into that because every player will have a different experience. Those ideas you mentioned are great though, and using Doodlebug more for gameplay is definitely something we talked about, and we'd probably have given it a go with another 24 hours.