Thank you. The menu suggestion is a pretty good idea.
The most honest answer I can give to you about the option to turn on and off the areas is that it just looks that good when recording GIFs to showcase it lol. The purpose of this game was to explore a different graphical look and that helps a little bit on cleaning the screen. But you are right, the hints and gravitational fields should have had less attention during the tutorial since is not gonna be useful for most users.
Thanks for the reply!