I think it's clear you have some talent making a game like this, so I'm just gonna be honest. If your goal is to have people play the game, you must teach them how to play, introducing concepts one at a time. Learning = fun, but you have to coddle your player before they are ready to face the world of cellular automata. I'm a software engineer and I noped outta this game pretty fast even tho I could kinda understand the concept.

Maybe your goal isn't to have people play your games, if it's not then ignore me!

Good job, keep making games!