Idea

Return to Sheep Rain with a more serious lens. The new question was not whether we could make it ridiculous, but whether we could make it controllably ridiculous.

Status

The new pass improved controls, reduced accidental layout breakage, and gave the joke a survivable settings model.

Problems Faced

Theme-level experiments become fragile when merchants can toggle them in weird combinations.
The AI kept optimising for novelty over restraint.

Techniques That Helped

Define the safe defaults first.
Make every wild mode obviously optional.

Lessons Learned

The difference between delightful and annoying is usually one or two small product decisions.