Thank you for you incredibly cogent and earnest feedback! Your experience is exactly what we expected given the current state of the game, so it's not a system problem. We weren't able to perfect our game; I'd go as far to say that it is incomplete.
Ideally, we would have had a successful/failed potion once the progress bar ends, the success/failure would be based on how well you completed the tasks. We even had assets for it, but didn't have the time to implement a start and end screen.
Once again. thank you so much for taking the time to play our game and review it!