Thanks a lot for the feedback! I really appreciate you taking the time to type it up!
This was a quick 'port' as we designed this game for an arcade machine. The idea was that players could keep spending money to keep playing. (yes that makes it pay-to-win, a quick design decision to save time and fit the game jam's theme)
The limited gameplay core is something we noticed through playtesting near the end of the game jam, unfortunately we didn't have time to implement many changes to fix that.
Thanks for the input on the icons, they were something we were iterating on all week, and it's always good to hear more feedback!
And thanks! Our artists were amazing hard workers!