When I start a new game of Factorio, I want the run-around-and-chop-down-trees Minecraft-esque beginning to be over as quickly as it can be. I race to get bots and logistics going as soon as possible. Being limited to only building things that are near my character is something I find very tedious, and bots relieve that tedium almost entirely.

And that lets me focus more on the stuff that I do like to work on in the game.

Figuring out a universal assembler that keeps a list of mundane odds-and-ends in-stock. Working out that shipping from the bottomless seas of Fulgora to Vulcanus where oil is expensive can be a net positive, even though many assume that it must be a bust. Sorting out the unusual steel barrel management problems this creates. Tweaking asteroid collection, and conversion, and eventually working the kinks out of the huge space casino ships that start becoming essentially inevitable.

And the best part of those space factories: Once I have a design that is finished, I can copy and paste it. Replication is simple.

There's other parts that I avoid, like: Main buses. They're efficient, but I tend to lean towards organic spaghetti belts because that's more funner-er for me.

Or trains. I don't use them much. They're cool and all; they just don't usually scratch my itch. They promote vast expansion, but when interplanetary logistics and the space factories are going full-swing then my need to expand on any one planet dwindles considerably.

Lots of people play the game differently than I do and that's perfectly fine. Some people like to program in assembler, and some people might prefer to work in Python.

Others can't even get the syntax right. When they need software written, they can get help from a friend, hire someone to write the code for them, or (with enough of the right kinds of supervision) get a bot to do it instead.

Some people enjoy running around and chopping trees.

It's OK to operate at a very low level. It's also OK to work at a very high level. If the results are rewarding, then chances are good that they're doing it right.

(Anyway, the birds are singing again.)