Thank you Nicola (I'm not inserting any £ signs in between the letters of your name on this occasion
).
Your post just confirmed my worst fears, had I chosen to continue the chase of futility.
That's "oops my laptop just became a projectile" rage-inducing disgustingly bad. A proper kick in the teeth.
I'm starting to think there is only one way to play this. The old post-cashout leftovers strategy.
Cashout, leave £25 (or x bets) behind, hope to collect a few hearts or trigger a quick feature, rinse and repeat,
then EVENTUALLY get your so-called enhanced feature.
And then, regardless of the result of that enhanced feature, straight to the banned list for all eternity, where hopefully it will rot in hell.
Making it a "starter game" seems to be a very bad idea. And possibly, a ruinously expensive one.