Okay so it was only 12 days later. I picked it up earlier this afternoon and got the solution in 16 minutes (Steam timed for me).
The way they altered the puzzle for this advanced version threw me off as it brought the words at the bottom of the screen into play by widening all the base platforms. It struck me that if they are now reachable then they have to be part of the solution, as why else would you make that change unless you were just doing it to be a red herring (that type of puzzle game red herring is bad and most good puzzle games wouldn’t do it). I actually had the skeleton of the right idea early on but that other realization locked me into a too narrow mental perspective, although if I stuck with it back then I probably would have figured it out. Of course I was also burnt out as hell on the game then, so the break was both good and probably necessary.