The bruce bear thing is supposed to work that way. If you knew of the penalty before starting your visit, nobody would ever be penalized. The idea is to stay on top of your stuff.

As for the upgrades / moar things. Yes, I hate both.

The issue with prioritizing is when something works “well enough” it isn’t as high as something broken. There have been things with the UI I haven’t liked for years, but just haven’t had a good excuse to fix them. Sometimes when I go in to fix or upgrade an unrelated thing that’s a higher priority I also fix it.

For example, have you ever noticed duplicate thread titles when entering a forum? It’s annoying but didn’t affect gameplay. With the gameplay upgrade, I finally fixed that bug after 2+ years of existing.

So yeah, I’m aware, and I hope to get around to them soon. I will try to squeeze some of them into Ep3.