Other points I have trouble with?

The game really, really needs a second edition to clean up the lack of internal balance. Some Words and some playstyles are just plain better than others ( https://www.reddit.com/r/godbound/comments/c9to7r/an_extended_tier_list_for_godbound_words/ ). There are homebrew projects like Fallen Empire Words ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/13nooujjQXDHEBfAcJt1xXB-Mmm32MaTZiMMll7EWJwU/edit ) that try to overhaul many of the game's Words, but even that can do so much.

I also think that Godbound needs significantly more guidance on the Dominion/Influence subsystem. I have always found it very vague on what effects it can actually produce, and how long it takes to engender any given effect. Likewise, the "I create an army of 100,000 combat robots" strategy is seemingly too good.