Thank you for sharing your feedback! In our panic to submit, I forgot to remove the spacebar reset (I was using that for debugging the boat and water physics). We had teamed up with a level designer who didn't end up delivering any level design, the project files became cursed, and then our sound designer was the only one who could edit the level so we crammed it together as best we could and exported the file haha.
I agree with your assessment, and we hope to achieve something better in the next gamejam we participate in :)