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Research Reinvented adds new research tasks, including examining materials, crafting benches and existing craftable stuff.
Depending on the settings, you can disable normal research and require you to interact with this, or just make the normal research slower and heavily rely on the experimentation.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2868392160&searchtext=research+reinvented

It's sort of like Rimatomics' system, but with a bunch of tasks that can be done in any order instead of specific steps.