I thank you so much for you and your friends feedback, you've really made my evening!
I like your observation to the fact that I basically nuked the claustrophobia meter with that one ability, It was my way of reducing the difficulty due to time constraints but it's been made more clear to me that I basically just made it obsolete. (maybe I will deplete it by adding a unique pick-up replenish instead?)
Embarrassingly I actually forgot about the gamepad support halfway through the jam, I'm glad it sounds like it surprisingly still worked though?
Also I'm glad the jumpscare did its job hehe, thank you so much again!! This has really motivated me to continue!