I find this tweaking of the timeline, options, actions and object interactions, difficult at least.
One time my project was fine, the next day it was broken
. The application interface, is fragmented.
Lots of options, not directly visible. Or unattended changes (hot-keys are not always helpful).
But after 18 hour of rendering, I got this 400 frames of tumbling bricks and scattered bumpers. Halfway of of this render process, I saw that my red and green bumpers are not active mesh objects.
When you are busy with more creative and fun parts of the project, you forget things.