Thank you for your kind and detailed comments, and welcome back to the Slam ^^ Cursor visibility and uncomfortable aiming are common points of feedback, and I would like to fix them when SHMUP Creator gets more updates.
(and yeah it was very naive of me to think that going to the final boss early, with a weapon that the boss was tested with in the first place, is a penalty lmao, makes me wonder how many people miss the superweapons you can get after beating Boss 16...)