Thanks for playing and the encouraging words!
Indeed, it was supposed to feel grindly around level 10, which was about where you would discover that you can automate your character and make it trigger menu options in all the sections based on conditions you choose.
So it would then become a true idle champion game, letting it grind based on your choices while you go have a coffee or something.
Unfortunately, I ran out of time. But I learnt a lot from this first jam, and I do hope to have time to keep working on it!