Thank you for the feedback!
The game was 100% intended to be a more automated factory game, but as it turns out, completing levels manually is far more effective since we didn't add any countermeasures against it.
i beat the game the right way now and i think if you just increase the amount of objects needed and lower the item per second/minute threshold it should prevent manually completing it, as when i did it manually i would drag at most 10 widgets over in a gravity sphere and hope it was enough but i would never be able to grab 20 or so and also complete it quickly