>>531760987
NTA
the problem with games that are not super optimized like factorio is that their production narrows down more down the chains, you take three items to make one, take five of those to make one of the next one
as the game goes on you need to build LESS of a factory because 500 steel pipes get compressed into 1 slooped + overclocked manufacturer's worth of inputs for propulsion engines
the requirements are also extremely low, to the point a lot of the time you're just wasting your time automating something instead of slapping a bunch of machines and hand feeding them/feeding them from a storage container
containers themselves go from almost useless early on to being WAY too big, they store so much you can just disconnect the production of whatever they're making once you've filled a chest because that's enough for the rest of the game