Well if this is the case, then I'm glad I made some noise! I definitely want to experience the game in its entirety as intended by the designer.
As for a B+W version, I can say that, as someone with only a grayscale/B+W printer, the cards do come through okay in general. This is thanks to the design of the card being minimalistic and words such as "necessary" and "harder" being easily discernible.
The only place where my printer struggled is printing out the card backs for the seeds. I could tell my printer was straining to print the solid black consistently. I thought I could make up for some of the deficiencies by going at it with a black color pencil, but as you can see on two of the cards at the bottom, it does NOT make the situation better (lol).
Looking forward to printing the new version so that I can have a complete set! Would also like to see improvements for grayscale printing if you can manage it (but don't stress yourself over it if you can't).