Hi there, I appreciate you playing my game and the feedback here.
I think a lot of your concerns have to deal with balancing. It is something I wish I would have done more of before submitting instead of rushing in more mechanics! I lot of work since submitting has been done on balancing and I have removed combat all together, at least for the time being. I think the way you played was in fact, the most efficient way. I hope it was fun regardless. Oh, and like a bunch of the other comments have mentioned, I removed the pressing enter in combat lol!
Thanks again for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated!