Thank you for playing!
On the last day of the jam when I was crunching to finish, tuning down the speed of the enemy projectiles was on my list of things to do after I finished the ending of the game. Unfortunately I just didn't have the energy to go do it lol. I spent the final few days of development constantly thinking "Those projectiles are too fast" so I'm totally in agreement.
And the health potion is totally underbaked. It's only application is to heal if you finish a level with low health, but I hadn't even thought about intentionally dying to heal lol. I should probably recontextualize healing for the updated version.