I feel like this game could do with a manual or something. The minimalist tooltips gave off a really cool vibe along with the rest of the game's environment, but they also made it hard for me to figure out what was actually going on. I only understood the mechanics well enough to get to this level.
Then again, maybe it wouldn't have mattered because I'm the only one that bothers to read the instructions anyway.
Yeah, I agree big time, with you and everyone else that's said this - I wanted to be a little obtuse on purpose, but I overshot it and made it incomprehensible instead. You got pretty far though, there's only one more level