Yeah, its good to confusse a the player a bit, but this is to much. Nobody will spend more tham than 5 minute with one of these jam games, and if he spending it with search object to search, he will quit soon.
Again. Sorry you didn’t enjoy aspects of the game. If it’s not for you or anyone else there’s no hard feelings. I’m sure there’s lot of other games in the jam that are more to your liking.