i'm not managing to progress after organized religion... 250k+ research points, i can get to foxes in like a few minutes and then it takes a bit more to get bears and religion (...i actually thought there wasn't anything after foxes before trying the game again after this update) but then there's no more upgrades and it looks like it'd take hours to get to the next staff and upgrading permits barely makes a difference :/ (for context i'm on the gardener's backyard with the philantropist bonus, that felt like the fastest combination for digging? i might be wrong though)
it's also kinda annoying that most upgrades are useless, there's no point in resetting the cost or doubling the efficiency of rabbits or whatever when they'd be getting <1% of the stuff either way, the update to raise mouse click efficiency to something in the tens of thousands arrives when the animals are doing quadrillions of digs per second... archeologist levels also got maxed out pretty quickly.... i do like the game overall though so i guess i'm gonna pretend i reached an ending for now, maybe a future update will make progressing faster at this point