Yes, I worked it out similarly and I saw comments on the twitters recently from others who did. Also usually the tough stuff is in the second part of each day, which I feel is pretty fair and provides a way to feel reasonably good about your result if you're not completely successful.
Yeah, I always liked how I could generally solve something a "dumb" way for part 1, but would likely need to refactor it to be a bit smarter to solve part 2.
