Yeah sorry, the game has some really rough onboarding. I was hoping that multiplayer would make up for it because I have no idea how to game design!
Don't enable depth of field, locking your grip can be undone by holding Q, or by tapping Q while looking at what you want to unlock, the food system is fairly complex as you need to mix the ingredients in buckets to get a visual effect (buy the scanner to help read what reagents are and what effect there is from mixing.)
Thanks for the feedback! I hope this helps.