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>This game is all about scaling and efficiency.
It is, but I've found that worrying too much about that early on hampers more than helps you. It's way easier to worry about all that efficiency and scale shit once you've spaghetti'd your way up the tech tree and have a base that can produce another, better base. Premature optimization can be just as wasteful as no optimization.

Pic related, many times I find it much more convenient to cludge some shit together to make progress while you figure out how to do it properly.