I only barely started playing this game but I gotta say the day-night cycle in this game doesn't really feel like it adds anything except making it impossible to see what I'm doing for over half of the time.
The difficulty is honestly kinda brutal. You start out with barely enough money to build anything and are already losing money fast, and I'm absolutely positive that taxes are being collected too often. It's suuuch a slog to even break even, let alone actually build anything. As someone who loves stuff like simcity and hoi4 this of all city management games being the one to just defeat me is a. Strange feeling.