This could've been a nice, short, byte-sized experience to play and forget

Instead it's a (still short, but) frustration caused by bad balance. Producing automation is slower than consuming one - and amount of manual clicks needed to equalize is silly (too large). While money upgrade does not grow as fast as costs do

And end of the game is absent. I wanted at least something to celebrate me pulling through all that.

Fishies added in late middlegame were nice, tho