I figured this can be used to cheat a bit. The paddle warps to the finger instantly on touch. You can use the pause to catch all coins

Yeah, I'll try to alleviate that by making the pause take more and more time to happen when repeatedly use it in a level.

Interesting. I was thinking it might lead to some cool emergent mechanics, especially combined with puck control ball, but I can see that being suboptimal, especially in how it introduces differences between mobile and mouse gameplay.