Thanks for playing!
This is definitely a game by a dev who likes to tweak for devs who like to tweak, and you're right that it's probably a swing and a miss for a lot of the audience. I like having a meta element to my SBIG entries but I underestimated how intimidating being thrown a bunch of config files and a couple pages of horrible documentation would be (for better or for worse that's something I'm very used to).
I'm curious about the console window you saw. Could you provide a picture or describe it in more detail? There are a few things that could be described as a console window, but none of them should be showing up in normal gameplay, so it's probably a bug.