Not surprising that you made those connections: one of the main devs and creators of Factorio have mentioned that the game arose in part from their frustrations

Not surprising that you made those connections: one of the main devs and creators of Factorio have mentioned that the game arose in part from their frustrations with the poor scalability of tech/industrial Minecraft mods. Specifically, IC2 is called out as having some influence on the design [of Factorio].