I felt like the game had enough puzzles running simultaneously that I wasn’t waiting for a particular day to work on one particular puzzle. Once everything started coming together and it was down to the final run, there was a little bit more reliance on RNG, but that’s rogue-likes. Any day that didn’t pay off in puzzles usually paid off in rolled over resources (freezer, moon pendant, trove, coat check).

I have seen a lot of complaints about the RNG in this game, but I never felt it, even on bad days.

The RNG beat me up too. I will say that there's a handful of permanent upgrades that either allow you to mitigate some RNG or give you buffs so you're not as reliant on it.

I think their goal was to make it so you're not hardlocked on a single puzzle so that you kind of wander into the manor without a specific puzzle to solve and see what you can solve/find as your tools for that run expand.

This kind of makes hours 0-10 kind of miserable because you don't know what puzzles there are and you don't have much you can do to avoid RNG so you're just wandering and hoping for the best, but it does get better after that point.

I just cheated to have additional resources when needed. Game was more fun after that!

It gets easier, there are a lot of knowledge and actual checkpoints

That's the wordplay they are going for, yes.