I think that's an excellent observation about the UI. In my initial plan, you start on foot and when you pick up your first energy cell that UI comes in and Bot tells you what it's for and then a little later Bot tells you he learned about the hyper roll technique and teaches you to do it, then you get that UI added. Then a little after you discover a TrooperBot to hijack into and Bot explains it has armor and can sustain some damage (and also be customized at the terminal) and that UI pops in. But all that got cut for the deadline!
I did notice on most streams it wasn't clear to players when they were taking damage. Thanks for playing.