Thank you for playing our game and for your in depth feedback!
We wanted to keep the design simple and clean, glad you liked it. The cheat menu was kept mostly so that if anyone did not like the pacing and felt it being slow, they could still experience all parts of our game. This is not intended to keep if we continue working on this project after the GameJam is judged. I agree with the info box suggestions, but this would need some time to change how we render them.