Follow only the minimum necessary rules
There is a heightened level of uniformity in the size, character, and cadence of the loops and the way that they interlink with each other, such that the major revisions lower down feel really disruptive.
The narrow range in the color progression enhances the feeling of delicacy and fragility, both tenuous and attenuated. Precious, but then with these big ‘nope’ redirection decisions just nakedly there.
The discomfort is a feature not a bug.