Thank you so much for the comment and the nice words, I'm glad you enjoyed!
I can totally see what you mean, and there is definitely something I could do to make the first loops feel less boring, and I'll look at that right after the jam!
As for the other point, this is indeed a bug (and one that is probably going to cause a lot of headaches to fix). I don't know if you were playing on the web version but it does have a few bugs that shouldn't happen on the downloadable one.
I'm very sorry about it and hope it didn't ruin a good run, thanks again!