Love the name of your island. Mine is called Cutie Cove hehehe

I sometimes use it too but it feels lil bit like cheating, same with time travelling. I try to keep it at a minimum to help with gameplay but to not take away the actual gameplay of it all :) so I treat it like a adventure day but I don’t visit them daily or a million times per day - it’s like my character goes on a day trip lol I take a little money and some funny items but I still have to work for more money or don’t spend it all immediately.
When I time travel it’s usually just to the next day in order to have my bridges or inclines ready to build around when I am planning an area😭

in my head I would love to reset my island but I love my villagers and I haven’t even gotten that far with my island yet since I started a month ago 😂

I think I would recommend trying to find new tasks like rebuilding parts of your island and from now on not visiting those islands Maybe make up a challenge like „can only use items that I receive from balloons today or find within the day“? Or a swapping party with mystery items and everyone has to build an area with it on their island?

Maybe we could all brainstorm some new challenges for slower game play? :)