I mean...I did literally say up in Post #8 above:
This is a project for my job and I was starting out with a cost-savings mindset.
It's been some days since then so maybe it got lost in the shuffle but I want to be clear that I was upfront that this is a project I'm undertaking for work. It's not like matters of copyright or IP or anything, though, I work for an escape room and this represents my first attempt at building a puzzle. It's not sensitive material, is my point.