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>Isn't quality straight-up worse than productivity when used this way?
The point isn't making quality science, it's making quality intermediates that you can spend making quality buildings/equipment. Typically I build whatever I need using productivity, then place some assemblers with quality modules "upstream" that drop their normal outputs on the main belt and stockpile all the quality outputs. The normal quality ingredients from the quality-moduled assemblers get priority but if the stockpile of quality outputs ever gets backed up, there's enough extra assemblers to pick up the slack. Picrel is an example of green circuits (ignore the mess, it's been built over a dozen times.) It's a decent way of getting lots of uncommon and a few rare ingredients stockpiled. You can scale up by turning the uncommon ingredients into uncommon science and so on. It's how I got rare power armor MkII before leaving Nauvis.