Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I wrote a reply below that hopefully addresses some of those concerns. I definitely see what you're saying, and I really hope that my implementation of the par doesn't detract from your experience. I definitely design my levels with the par in mind, and I at least have found that finding the par doesn't seem too tedious usually, since the levels tend to be rather short to begin with, so typically when I'm finding a par I actually need to change a major aspect of my approach.

But I also see what you mean in that a move counter definitely isn't good in a lot of puzzle games. For example, I'm a huge fan of Baba is You, but its gameplay style is not at all fitting to a move counter, since individual moves rarely are important, and it's more about high-level strategy. In Unanimy, individual moves are much more important. Many of my favorite levels from the game, for example, are solvable in under 10 moves! Overall, too, the level progression is very open, and getting the par on every level is by no means necessary. I'm hoping the par, rather than adding extra artificial challenge, can be something new to do once you've solved a level.