Your feedback and perspective is absolutely not wasted effort! Thank you for taking the time to offer it!
Also, way to call me out. XD To be fair, I was absolutely willing to be wrong about my approach here. What do I know, right? XD I also relate to attacking problems with some truly fanatic zeal, but I am always open to someone popping around the corner and being like “uh… yeah here is a 2 second solution you were missing…” After a deep sigh of exasperation, I’d succumb to humility. XD
As for posting projects, it has been a while since I felt bold enough to do so, but it has been to my detriment, not sharing in order to receive feedback. I will start that up again, like Marc also recommended.
As for project extensions, I completely agree! I did the same thing with the rail shooter (more in the direction of dialogue and story-immersion… so embarrassing nowadays but I’ll share anyway haha).
https://community.gamedev.tv/t/star-trek-assault-with-voice-over/147787?u=dkoko002
I suppose I just haven’t taken the time to do another project that would allow me that same opportunity. More of a reason to work on more projects in bite sized pieces I suppose 
(P.S. I really liked your approach and extension on project boost!)
Thank you again, for sharing, and giving your feedback! 