Half a year later, I don't like how rolly the middle and ending parts are.

Actually it used to be less rolly, but it was too hard (at 1.2x). Would it be fine to turn it back to be less rolly?

e a r t h -ILLUSION-SIMULATION- (jh05013) [6.5/10]

PERMS OK
SYNC OK

12.614 & 15.372 & 18.131: Missing notes, given 11.062 & 11.579.

25.114: Would expect the jump here for the vocals (see 1:30.631), and another one at 25.545.

25.200: Single, see 25.114.

26.062: Jump.

40.545 & 46.062: Why jumps here?

43.303: No jump?

47.441: Bad PR with 46.924.

55.200-1:06.234: This whole section feels out of place. It has no clear motif, no clear instrument layering/coloring/patterning, and some bits like 1:00.717-1:01.177 are quite arbitrary. It works on 40% speed, but at normal speed it's quite unintuitive.

1:15.545: Missing note giving the jumps layering for this bass.

1:10.200: This layering is unintuitive to play. It is super quiet and is layered identically to the other jump"jacks" that go to the drums and are much louder, so when these come in it feels a lot like ghost notes.

1:48.993: Would expect a single here.

2:13.131-2:13.303: These aren't 24ths (just 16ths) and even approximating to it is a bit too farfetched relative the the actual 24ths that start on the 8th. There's a flam 64th at 2:13.282 that you may or may not layer (I'd probably opt not to). Also, consider maybe 4 2 4241 here for PR and pattern variety.

2:14.165-2:14.510: While this is correct, the pitch is close enough to justify emphasizing this louder sound with something like 22334 (with the jumps). Same idea for 2:15.200.

2:16.234 & 2:16.407: The clear pitch changes here don't match the patterning.

Overall the chart is physically alright to play, but lacks variety; a Lot of the non-js patterning (midsection, full ending) feels like rolls only yet there is a good amount of variety in the music itself. The JS is a bit vague at times but does have friendly patterning and matches the intensity relatively well. Given that the concerns are primarily structural, I'd send this back. (NOTE: I wrote these notes without having seen your own comment on how rolly it is. I think my notes very much agree with you there).

Thanks for the notes.

I'm thinking of cancelling all the cuts and charting the song fully (it mostly repeats stuff, but feel free to reject if it's too much for the FR range). That would nearly triple the amount of heavy JS while keeping the same amount of midsection stream, and there wouldn't have been a spike concern for making them less rolly in the first place. I didn't really like the cut anyway because it kind of broke the song progression.