Hi mate, sorry it took so long to reply... Itch just sort of stopped sending me notifications that there were new posts here.
In the next update I have some fixes for a few of the problems you've mentioned. The combat skills are (finally) going to be added in their entirety (as you noticed, right now all skills only target enemy characters, and all skills with multiple steps don't activate at all), and the enemy stats and so forth are going to be properly balanced (I hope... everything is of course still a work in progress... but it will get a little better). I'm also adding a little notice to any content that may result in a forced story death, so that players can choose to postpone that interaction.