you've got really fair points here, I just want to mention a couple things that might help:
- You have to turn every component off in the workstation before installing physical modules. There's a note in the basement in a locker with a wrench that explains it. Basically turn off everything but utilities so that there's no electrical current in the workstation.
- You can disable individual minigames in the Game Rules section before you load your save
- When you say drives don't go into your hand when you pull them, I assume you mean pull them from the slots in the workstation i.e. playing or signal processing. If you hold R on the drive, it will go straight into your hand. Tap R to put it straight into your inventory, and E to physics grab it.
Hope this helps a bit!