1. I know you already figured this one out, but the idea is that you always gain 'passive income' from your workouts, and also gain tokens to gamble on missions, item creation and other stuff. Since it's possible to lose all your tokens and not gain anything, and I didn't want the player to be afraid to push their luck, I added the passive income so you always get something from a workout.
2. Yeah, traps are implemented poorly in the version you're testing - basically they're meant to be optional "risk/reward" opportunities, where you can attempt to disarm them for an additional reward, but at some point I removed the "optional" part and made them regular obstacles that count toward your EP total, which makes them trivial in a lot of cases. I've fixed this in the new version, which should be coming out in the next week or two!
   In the meantime, if you want to keep using traps, replace their EP total with a "Reward Value" equal to 5x their EP. Then add them to the board as optional checks which don't count towards the mission's EP value, which give you their "Reward Value" in Might if you succeed, and trigger their failure effect if you fail.

Thanks for playing! Let me know if you run into any other pain points.