You know.. I agree almost 100%.
The obstacles are there in the first few rooms for this exact reason.
There are pretty much only two reasons the bot is there:
1. It's 2019 and I assumed people expect this sort of thing since it's been so heavily ingrained in pretty much every game at this point.
2. Keyboard users, it's either this or they will have to go to the options and check the keys / mash random keys on the keyboard to find out how to move, with a controller this would not be an issue.
With that said, I've kinda been trying to remove the bot already, in the current version it only helps you up until the save room then it powers down leaving you on your own.
And now, just as I was typing this, I came up with another way I could do this:
Show a yes/no "popup" when starting a new game asking if you want to enable tutorials or not.
That seems like it could be a good compromise so this has now been added to the to-do list.
Thanks for the feedback and trying the demo. :)