That's intentional; I wanted to make it slightly less likely that the player accidentally discovers the twist by e.g. clicking on the game screen to give it focus
apparently I'm just bad at sokoban (despite having beaten this whole game and several other covemountlikes before) because I tried to beat level 2 without the ability before making this comment and I was completely stumped until you implicitly confirmed it was doable. maybe I was just tired lol
