Thank you for the in depth comment! I really enjoy these, especially with this being my first publicly available game and first game jam.
We tried to naturally communicate a lot of what would have been tutorials and UI elements in this game. When you talk about the casual approach removing the number of tapes; there are counters for the shelves, it's just communicated through the actual sprites how many tapes there are. Based on the comments we have received, we gave too much credit to our players to figure out how this game works by looking at the things in the store.
Our inspirations for this game was Diner Dash and Overcooked. We tried to take a spin on that formula. The rewind feature could definitely be worked on whether that be done by reducing the tapes that need to be rewound further or something else.
Thanks for enjoying the game