I'm having the same issue on the current build (V022dhf1) and the issue seems to be solely with exiting the Monsterpedia not the tutorial. When the tutorial is closed you can still interact with the Monsterpedia and all it's sections, but closing the 'pedia causes the game to... not freeze necessarily because it recognizes switching inputs between mouse/keyboard and controller, but it otherwise doesn't respond to your inputs.
Sometimes, however, force quitting the game and immediately restarting and selecting continue will cause whatever glitch is happening to just not trigger and the game will work fine afterwards.
Edit: anytime a tutorial procs while you are in the monsterpedia guaranties triggering the bug.