Again, not pointless, and no one is forcing you to skip. The story is integrated into the game... via the short intro and ending messages. It is a valid integration.
No one is forcing you to read 5 short lines of text.
None of this actually impedes the gameplay, so this last point is irrelevant.
I would suggest you re-read the feedback. While most of it is in fact my own personal preference, rest assured they are not mine alone.
However, I want you to receive the point about the beginning text and control explanation placement.
When I started the game and saw the message to skip (was thankful for it) and I quickly pressed ESC. I did not see the control explanation because it is also skipped. I want to skip the pointless stuff, not the important stuff like instructions.
I exited after I could not figure out the controls, hoping to find a menu option that would show them. Did not find anything useful.
I then started the game hoping that there was an in game help option and once again pressed ESC to skip the text blather.
Found nothing useful.
I restarted once again dreading the realization that the text I have been skipping might contain useful information buried inside it.
After a couple screens of text and seeing that it was useless I rapidly spammed through the text, only barely noticing the last screen with the control info, but I spammed right passed it.
So I once again restarted and had to slowly skip through the mess to get to the useful info.
This is my experience with your game. I hope this feedback helps you in the future.
EDIT: If this had not been a jam game where I was mindfully being lenient I would have closed and never opened the game again after the second restart.
If this would have been a demo it would have convinced me not to get the full game.
If this would have been a purchase I would have refunded it after the second restart.
I played your game and liked it. But I would have never gotten that far due to the poor introduction.