Power button shutdown choice window always open

I turned off my MacBook Pro using the power button after running Migration Assistant transferring user profile from another Mac via ethernet. The migration stalled. I turned off the new MacBook Pro and now, after it starts up normally, the window that you get when you press the power button that gives you the option to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut down is always on. It won't cancel, but selecting any other option and starting up again the window comes back up.
The button itself still functions and doesn't feel stuck at all. I have erased the HD and reinstalled OS, but window to shutdown keeps coming up

A few more informations
My macbook felt a few times on the floor, once on the corner where the power button is located (...), but it was a few months, or a few years ago, and it didn't show the power button's problem before today
Since a few weeks, my trackpad stopped clicking
My battery says since a year or more "service battery", so it could may be battery-related ?
....Yeah, this Macbook is kind of screwed, but I'd like to keep it alive

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