*beams at you* Thank you for asking the question! I had a blast going back over everything, and trying to remember why we made the specific choices we made (although obviously, a lot of this is now colored with hindsight - we talked out a lot of different options for a lot of different spots before finalizing things, and at this point I just don't remember a lot of it).

And yay, I'm so glad the cutting on those sections works for you! They're completely different from every other spot in the vid, and tbh I wasn't even conscious of why I was speeding things up there while I was doing it, I just knew it had to be twice as fast as it had been because the build demanded it. (We vid a lot more by feel than might be evident in this writeup - we figure out why we did it after we've done it, half the time *g*)

In short: \o/