Hi there Nathan! You are 100% right about those UX issues. For the first two hours of development the layout indeed looked liked this:
The reason I moved those around is because I wanted to kill another bird with the same stone: using them as touch controls :)
I’m considering a post-jam update anyway, and I just added input method selection to the todo list, so I can show the logical layout and key/button overlays. Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!