Okie dokie, so I tried the new version and enjoyed the many minor improvements to the colors, lighting, UI, etc. The binding agents are quite wonky, I must say. Sometimes my cell became detached without my pressing U, and then the other cell just sat there. If I then pressed U, the AI of the other cell would reactivate. Sometimes my cell clipped into the cell I bound to and caused me to zoom around without spending any energy. Sometimes the binding caused the other cell to get enough resources to split, which made my movement very slow and unresponsive until I pressed U and the cell exploded into several more cells. But most of all, I saw no reason to use the binding agents beyond testing them. Living alone was always better. Being attached to another cell made the game a bit screwy and meant I couldn’t move as much and was a large target for spikes and toxins.
I think the amount of resources gotten from dead cells is also too high. Engulfing just one cell usually gave me enough to reproduce, even if I had a nucleus and the other one didn’t.