Thank you so much for the stream! It's always a blast to see other people go through the game in its entirety, and see what needs to improve as they play test them! We unfortunately ran out of time to playtest and fine-tune the last 30% of the levels / bosses (from minotaur onward), and there was a lot of additional polish /bugfixing TODOs from other levels playtesting we just didn't have time to fix, most of them happened to be exactly the frustrating stuff you ran into... The level design has too many unfair spots that punish the player for no reason, and very few rewarding moments that can help the player feel great about what they have accomplished. In retrospect I think it would have been good to have a person dedicated to level design given the scope we wanted to tackle.
Really appreciate your time and analysis!
Cheers