Yeah, I would prefer Satisfactory having enemies you had to fight off and you're right, the vanilla interface makes late game very tedious, but the modding community has pretty well solved that one.

I kind of expect that once all the content is in the game the devs will work on deciding which mods need to be incorporated. I can't imagine them leaving this game without any sort of copy/paste mechanism. Even if they do, though, PC players can mod it in and it makes larger and more complex factories much less tedious.

So much so that I agree with you in general. I don't think I could play it without a few specific mods that speed up building. Once you have laid out a 70x50 factory floor with a single click, you are never going to go back to doing it all individually.