I concur, we even need them urgently :D
I’m not a tryhard by default, but I can definitely be baited into tryharding, so good job baiting me into perfect score, I deliberately chose to do well in this game even though it was painfully hard :)
Memorizing the words was most important, it decreased difficulty significantly.
As you say, more complex scoring would be hard to balance, I think this was a very appropriate solution, I wouldn’t seriously want to suffer even more than the maximum triple-curse :)