Yeah, for the later parts I was more fighting with the controls rather than playing.
Also, because of lag the snake sometimes behaved oddly, skipping tiles and randomly dying on respawn because of already input controls.
A slower timer or maybe a turn-time indicator / controller would be nice. I think filly turn based would take out some of the snake aspect, but a good idea to fix fighting for control.
Edit.: Nothing like replying to myself from 2 years ago :D