Thank you so much for playing the game and giving us such good and thorough feedback we are really grateful! I agree with you on everything and we entend to go back to this game and rectify these issues ^_^ a lot of those issues were caused by oversight and general time constraints(nature of game jams a guess :p). As for the timer counter at the top, the reason it exists is without it an extremely defensive play style can really draw the game out.
Thanks again for playing