It gives me some hope as well as it was my first time using Adventure Creator. I personally find visual scripting less intuitive and more difficult to debug than normal coding.
I'm with you on that one towards the end of the Jam my project was a bit of a mess and it started to become hard figuring out some bugs were speech text would appear when it shouldn't
I used AC for my AdvJam2021 game and found the same issues. In fact, I since switch to PowerQuest, which I can't recommend enough to people more used to coding than visual scripting. All my subsequent games have been made with it.