Haha, thanks for the kind words!
One of my regrets is we didn't have much time for tutorialization, so one of the tricks that we didn't point out enough is that pot mimics only follow you to the next floor if they are spawned into the floor you are on - so if you're fast enough you can escape them by focusing on trying to get to the next floor asap, giving you some breathing room... though they'll be waiting to ambush you on the way back down (and chests do not give up). This isn't super obvious though so hopefully we can make it clearer in a post - jam update.
Again thanks for the feedback!