I got bored at some point with the game as well after having lots of fun in the beginning, I hope the update helps with that. Thanks for the introduction!
So you're still forced to abandon all the xp. They still ramp up the difficulty to force you out of each level. The artifacts are still trash. The meta progression is the same insomnia-curing 0.001 stat increases, there's just 10x more of it now. And main gameplay is still a tag game of careful wiggling through the enemies. Yeah, that just about sums up the reasons I dropped it in the first place after a dozen of hours or so =(
