I quite enjoyed this. One little tweak: I wish “Drop single letters” would drop multiple letters down if they are all the same. There’s no choice so it might as well.
I had this situation come up a few times as I played through.
I had sadly missed this game in IF Comp 2024. I’m glad to have played it. I still have a semi-legendary status in my house for once turning across some behemoth 10 lane highway in the US in peak hour, attempting a maneuver much the same as this game. That was actually less harrowing than this game, but only just.