Will the new godot version have water currents that carry the compound clouds? I think it is good for the player not to starve, because it seems that the current game is a parkour of compounds, where each cloud is a little far from each other and sometimes(often) with some clouds with many, but MANY compounds, that make you quench your hunger instantly or reproduce in 3 seconds.
With compound cloud more ‘dissolved’, there will be rarely parts that will not have any compound, the player takes less compounds per time and enjoys that generation more, interacting with other microbes, enjoying life 
… instead of spending 5 minutes with starvation and be saved by a cloud with compounds that fill his bar instantly
Conspiracy theory: it’s just a concept art