I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the intro. As it is, it's still a WIP to see what we could do with the engine. We got good feedback on it, so we decided to keep it around, and you also have the option of always skipping it in the preferences menu.
...I didn't even look at preferences at all. I never do until I've actually started playing the game, because I assume the default settings make sense, which I can't during the intro if it's unskippable. No one puts intro skips in *preferences*, mainly because intro sequences aren't normally four minutes of zero content. Just allow anyone to Return or Esc through it. That's far more intuitive.