Hm. Again, I feel like we’re getting a lot of the same takeaways from this game. My second mission was also a lot more low-key and low profit after a disastrous first.

As for this wildly intriguing last paragraph stuff, if that’s coming from where I think it’s coming from, then I think that might be a case of “doing it wrong,” inasmuch as anyone’s subjective gaming experience can be “wrong”.