"In from the Cold" Scenario, any way to skip it?

[Ayuhra]

By the third time I was really over it and just wanted a "no, this is dumb, skip" button. But of course you can't skip it. Then I got to a QTE that I didn't expect, was drinking something, and failed it before I got my hands free.

Doing it AGAIN, I keyboard mashed as usual and somehow managed to bring up the settings menu, which you can't do in any other QTE in the game.

This quest didn't bother me much but that QTE is probably too tight for where it is. By that point you are worn out, it's a very mash-heavy QTE and if you lose you start over AFAIK. That's not great.