Thanks for playing! Yeah it does drag a little I'll admit, but I also had a streamer complaining about how he couldn't read it in time before lmao.
There's a little bit of risk vs reward in regards to the chomping vs shooting, you can either safely shoot from a distance and miss out on valuable flesh to upgrade your stats, or get in close and chomp away for more flesh.
You didn't hear it from me, but in the full game there may be something special waiting for players who choose to only chomp or only shoot...