I didn't do great, but I finished.

I feel I have a decent plan for moving through the game, but my discipline breaks down and I kind of run with a general sense of direction and wing it.

Big mistakes were mismanaging my animals' affection growth, delaying their festival wins and my pet purchasing, general movement inefficiencies, needing to take an extra trip into the mines for an emerald, not finishing my marriage earlier in the game, running out of some ingredients and needing to re-acquire animals capable of producing certain goods. My luck with catching Guardians seemed good, but my luck with Wool X was bad and that's very discouraging late in the run - if I'd managed my animals better I might have been able to start shearing earlier, which would have allowed me to break the grind up more.

If I keep my head on straight, I could see finishing this category in under 24 hours if I keep my head on straight. But there's 5 hours of grind (tools, guardians, wool X) that make it hard to imagine trying to improve the run now that I've crossed the finish line. The other aspects of the run (farming, animals, relationship building, etc) are fun to juggle, but there's too much garbage in the run.

I ran on Normal because I didn't expect Simple to be that useful (biggest help would be faster friendships for recipes) and I preferred the idea of not using easy mode. YMMV. PC is clearly superior for menus and especially Travel Stone usage.