So if you had the power to change something in one of the game's levels (whether a single gimmick or an entire chunk of a level), which one would it be, how you would change it, and why you would change it

I'll go first

The level I'd change is Luna Sola, and when reaching the last third or the second half you're given the armadillo, my reasoning is so that the armadillo powerup's story goes full circle, from those two rolling star levels to the mix of those two, plus it lends itself to some pretty neat puzzle solving