Thanks for the feedback! You brought up some really good points.
>There's a lot of QoL changes I couldn't add cuz of time constraints (like time remaining, talent name text, theme text, etc). A theme change warning indicator is definitely one I also need to add lol.
>For pause cheesing, I was thinking of having a "curtain" cover the screen whenever the game is paused or out of focus to prevent those kinds of things, but like you said, cheating isn't really a big concern as long as they still have fun with it (at least in single-player games)!