I loved the little detail of Fuchsia Village not having a visual snail, because it is so expensive and it needs constant feeding. It really shows the limits of applying Vegapunk’s techs to the rest of the world. There is an engineering barrier and an economic one to produce stuff everywhere.
The countdown makes me sure that the Elders will somehow intercept the ending of the message. It will be the same as Clover’s announcement, the revelation will be cool but cut short. Maybe even cut at the same point, the name.