I would love to see you posting on a more regular basis too! Note that I am allowed to say it as this applies to me as well ;)

I was smiling when I read the following sentence from your post:

How they change is based on the state of their neigbourghs

This indeed made me thinking to the 2021 Nobel prize in physics, about frustration. Of course, I am not referring to the climate part of the prize, but the other half on disordered systems (see here for more information).