When I was finishing up development I started realizing that the enemies weren't exactly meshing with the game as a whole, like you said it's easier to just avoid them. And because there's so many enemies it's, inversely, really easy to farm and get super strong so the final boss was given like 80 health to compensate for the fact that the player could feasibly be doing like 10 damage per bullet.
I want to do a second pass at the game once the Jam's fully over where, instead of farming enemies for loot, you've got to mine it out of blocks, thereby making the enemy avoidant playstyle more valid, while also forcing the player to slow down and get loot here and there to stay powered up.
Thanks for playing! I appreciate the feedback a lot!