There was a lot to like here. I'm a sucker for scifi worldbuilding and a lot of this was creating this world in which it's normal to have broken lines of communication and weird soul-eating power cores.
I feel like the main choice comes in relatively early - the "keep the same song" vs "change it" choice. I think about the role of aleatoric elements in art and I think that's such an interesting choice that I may explore what that choice changes.
The other choice - business vs. murder - I felt unprepared to make. There were some sinister overtones but that's part and parcel of a scifi setting. I wonder if calling it business was what led to the kind of left-turn ending I got that left me a bit puzzled instead of something that resolved the plot threads.