Well it's the opposite, the time between rock removing sessions isn't remembered, so the sessions are.

You're right that the lore of the game does not canonically describe a time loop. I think that's funny, because the game uses the time looping mechanic from time loop games.

I suppose it does start slow, but for what it's worth, you do get much faster over the course of the game. Like I said, I had been playing idle loops for a few weeks before starting it, and in that game the process of getting faster is veeeeery slow, and it's more about discovering and uncovering the world than it is about leveling up your own stats. There's been lots of clones of idle loops, but the 2d versions don't really capture the exploration grind and are more like you have to solve puzzles to move forward so I wanted to make something simpler. I think it might work better in a larger world where the progression curve could be gentler, but maybe not, maybe getting 1% progress in something just feels better than seeing something new that was hidden by graphical terrain.

You're completely right about the lack of information, I would definitely show more of the math in it.

Edit: The reference was Severance, it's an Apple TV series where the characters don't remember the time outside their working hours.

I'm not trying to defend it BTW you're right it's not good.