In the classic days of doing these puzzles they lasted a lot longer. Are we doing them wrong?

(I am having a blast doing them, but not sure if we've mangled a process or something???)

The puzzle was , to say the least...

Thank you to Ramath/Kimmy, if she will be so kind to hostess the next (or host or meister or 'verb-of-choice')

Thank you, hostess Sleipnir for leading us on a very fun and challenging chase(?)!