Thank you for playing!
Don't worry; everyone has found this game hard to understand at some level. I think I have gotten a grasp of the main pain points and I will be sure to make it much easier and less dense in the future.
I will consider getting a cursor-only control scheme to work, since so many people keep asking for it. That has to come with all sorts of custom provisions, though, for when you are in a free movement mode and such. So it will require some iteration.