First of all - thank you so much for such long and detailed review, i really appreciate it!!
In order to be able to select an animal you have to have it's abilities selected(When you purchase one - they alredy have their final abilities set, but when you get an animal from crossbreeding - they only have a list of "potential" abilities, from which you have to select the ones you want to see for this animal in a battle). But i understand, that at the moment game's UI is quite unintuitive and it doesn't tell you about all the features.
The battle actions logging system is already on it's way, i am just not sure if i am allowed to add it during the rating period, as only the bugfixes are allowed for the next couple of days.
I am also currently working on more responsive UI features for all the aspects of a game ( especially - for the battle menu ) as well as planning to add some kind of tutorial stage of a game, where it will lead you through a full gameplay loop, showcasing all the features, so this scuffed help menu will be more of a secondary thing.
And yeah, thanks again for such a good review!