Ay nice, that's some character development! Resisting scope creep is hard for me too, I just have to keep reminding myself of the time limit
Does Unity have viewport options? The scaling issue was a problem for me in my first few jams (you could see more of the game if you realized the window lmao), but after I switched to a 2D viewport it wasn't an issue because it would scale proportionally with the window size. Apologies if you already know about this, just thought maybe it might help!