I considered explaining to the player how the springs work but, decided in the end to try the super mario approach of letting the player figure it out on his own.
glad you enjoyed the game.
I am sorry to hear you couldn't finish the game, I tried playing through the game again (browser version) and nothing went wrong after the fake game over animation. You're meant to not be able to control the egg before the animation but gain back control after the speech bubble comes out.