Wow: I did not notice that I had an additional mail in my inbox until now. I feel very very stupid. Thank you for your patience!!!
My original thought was "why is this suddenly so bizarrely hard?" But it's not, I just totally missed something square in my face. Let me reiterate my statement that the difficulty level is very appropriate, and there's no really unpleasant final part (unlike e.g. Obra Dinn, which I love but is very tedious at the end unless you give in to brute force)
One other comment: I made the questionable choice of doing most of the game up to this point on my phone. This made the wordle/asteroids stuff even worse because there is no [esc] key to escape (and you cannot play asteroids on mobile, nor can you escape, so I just had to wait to lose). You may want to put up a warning and/or have an alternative escape option for the similarly questionable players out there.