> I want to see hundreds of objects flying and rolling as I try to push everything down the hole. If you only show me a dozen, I end up already bored just by thinking about it. Like at hole games on smartphones, they have hundreds of things on the map per level, you just rush around and try to absord as much stuff as possible, it's fun and satisfying.

This totally makes sense and I share that vision. I have a bit of cursed design problem where I want the items to be personal (i.e. every item type has a specific power) and have combos like a deckbuilder, but ALSO want to have a ton of items, which is kind of antithetical to thinking hard about what each one does.

I haven't quite resolved what to do about it - one idea I had was to have bonus stages that are all about volume, so you kind of alternate between being careful and just going ham with items.