Never thought about the 3d space being a sort of cone with its bottom towards the listener, always conceptualized it as a cube, but conical makes sense as it gives you a sort of horizon. Gotta try this sometime

might be kinda cursed, but you could try a cooking cream. there's soy based ones if you want to stay plant based.
if you do lmk if its a winner, I have morbid curiosity about this now

the coconut doesnt rly come through at all in thai curry imo, but if you still want to avoid it try making a japanese style curry. I've been really seeing the light on that recently and its so delicious

Some discussion about shuffle in this thread so lemme weigh in and say that you gotta dance to what you have to best feel if your groove is right.
Seriously.
Just get up and dance habitually to what youve got and itll become a lot more clear where the groove doesnt work.