Among a strong field, this is the single most depressing comment I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Several grim components but it’s the “I don’t understand why” which seals the deal.
The game’s difficult to understand so it’s too punitive to not offer even a single practice/example puzzle to use for learning. One puzzle a day is nice once you’ve got the hang of it, but it’s discouraging to “waste” today’s puzzle on learning the rules and not be able to try for real until tomorrow.
What do you mean by “Pagemorphs”? A quick Google search suggests you’re the only person using this term so it’s hard to know what you’re recommending. I think it must mean e.g. https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/page_refreshes?