Agreed on all points. Since it was just a wildcard we didn't have a lot of time to balance/polish the cheats (half the team didn't even know it was even added since I spliced it in at the last minute). I was hoping that the sound fx for activating and deactiving might have been enough to indicate whether the cheats were toggled, but I admit that's a pretty subtle cue :)
Thanks for playing! 2.0 will definitely implement these suggestions.