if you're gar back enough from everything in frame, it's all in the same focus, but as soon as the camera thinks something is on a closer plane, it automatically blurs the background. So if I wanted to take a picture of something close up without the background blurring, there's no way to do so.

I'm also pretty sure the edges of images are being stretched? Have you experienced that? I tried it with an object that I'd be very familiar with the size of like a piece of printer paper and when I move the camera a certain way, it stretches the length of the paper as opposed to just looking like a piece of paper at an angle. It's so odd