Thanks for your feedback (as such is rare post-qualification nowadays). About the jumps feeling forced--I try to focus my mapping more on direction than on magnitude, as I believe it scales better with player skill. That is to say, what is/isn't a big/small jump varies greatly from player to player, but directional movement tends to feel the same.
I also thought that if I made the whole diff fairly spaced, then jumps would become the norm rather than the exception in the difficulty haha
nicela