Thanks for playing and I am glad that you liked it.
Adding too much A.I to pests made the levels difficult to play (the dumb player that I am) and overshot the total playtime (I was estimating around 2-5 mins max for completing full game). I felt that dumbing them down and reducing their numbers per level made sense to me for the scope of game jam.
But, optimizing difficulty level will be on top of my list if I want to pursue the concept further.