I agree, and I dropped Factorio for a year before going back to it and sinking a few hundred hours into it. What changed? Well partly some UI improvement, but

I agree, and I dropped Factorio for a year before going back to it and sinking a few hundred hours into it. What changed? Well partly some UI improvement, but mostly it was a mindset change. The inventory is rubbish because you're not supposed to have inventory. It's a game about JIT supply chains. Instead of building things and working out what to build from them, start from the end and work backwards. I also had to learn to not get bothered by overproduction and stop trying to buffer overproduced goods.