Please don't worry about me too much, I'm just one of those bad-behaved impatient players who aren't willing to think about what controls they *might* need in the game before having tried the game first. *shrug*. I'm guessing that people who are actually SHMUP fans might be more willing to prepare?...
I was able to rebind ESC back if that's what you mean. It's just that I was so unprepared to not be in a main menu but instead be forced into a config screen that I mashed buttons hoping to just get to the game asap