I didn't read the description at first and thought it was actually a very unique and somewhat fun method of input. Games where you have to juggle a lot of systems to just keep things running like FTL came to mind! So while it wasn't necessarily the game you wanted to make I got some enjoyment out of it!
One thing about the console: it didn't take commands like "set prop = 5", while I don't know the method you used to parse the input maybe ignore or remove whitespace to allow this varying kind of input.