Thanks for your kind words and feedback! Both of us are actually technical people so we spent a long time working on the feel; getting this positive feedback from a arty person makes it all worth it.
We both knew that the tutorial wasn't great. But it was a concession we needed to make to get other priorities finished. What this needed was an interactive gameplay tutorial, we just didn't have time for it.
Thanks again for your feedback and we are super glad you enjoyed!