7 Meters is pretty solid though!
But yeah as punishment, dead branches will still count against your approval. But I think there's some physics issues mainly with leaves that can cause spontaneous pruning sometimes if you're unlucky, but it helps not to grow leaves too close so that they'll push branches around.
I really wanted to add another plant element to add depth after a certain point but I guess we just decided to really polish it with the remaining 6 hours of the jam instead. The 5 meter news article alludes to this. And for the record, 8 meters is the final article I was able to get in for this.
Anyway thanks for playing and for the nice feedback 😎