Hey thanks for the kind words and the feedback! Glad you had a good time.
We definitely deliberated about the rolling movement quite a bit, initially it was much faster, but we ended up nerfing it to focus on the rocket movement, and basically went in the direction of a sort of misdirect with those curve sections as you pretty much guessed. But yeah, I definitely think we could've communicated that (and some other things probably) to the player much more deliberately, maybe with more tutorial-esque problems to teach the player early on or something. Anyway, great insight! Appreciate you taking the time!