Did a blind playthrough of the current demo and uploaded the result over here:
As other players have mentioned, being able to return to main menu from the defeat screen would be good.
Being able to pay 1$ to receive a resource pull that was guaranteed to be at least 5$ seems like a debug or testing feature, or placeholder values. Perhaps as planet stability decreases, the cost can increase. I have a feeling I read something about that on the page or during the tutorial somewhere.
I'm not sure what the emotional support checkbox does in options but I enabled it during the playthrough.
Cheers