After a few more games, it is obvious that the paddle is very unfair. There should be only a small section on both sides of the paddle that bounces back the ball in the same direction it came from. Currently, it's split in half. So the ball is coming from the right side and hitting the right side of the paddle, always bouncing back the ball in the right again. And for the next landing, we need to move the paddle all the way across.
So either paddle speed should be faster to get the ball to land on the side that we want, even if we are extreme opposite side of the screen, or just make the paddle bounce logic as the middle part of the paddle just inverts the Y direction and at both sides of the paddle the small area change both X and Y.
There should be an upgrade at the very start, which is low-cost and speeds up the movement.
Currently, the only affordable upgrade is extra life. Not having the speed boost for our paddle can cause repeated defeats, and not having enough money for anything.
Often, after a certain point in the game, the ball comes to a state where we need to move the paddle all across the screen repeatedly. It's okay when we are at a lower ball movement speed, but this infinite state of going back and forth is only for a short period, as the ball is getting faster and faster, but the paddle is at a constant slower speed.
Our paddle is not even the same speed as the other one!! So it is an inevitable death situation.
