> Why would pseudo-programming with no actual payoff or learning along the way be desirable over...just doing what you want, programming? Because Factorio is a

> Why would pseudo-programming with no actual payoff or learning along the way be desirable over...just doing what you want, programming? Because Factorio is all the fun problem solving with none of the baggage of dealing with programming - no git repo to manage, no linter to satisfy, no language quirks to re-learn, no messy APIs to use (and in my experience, almost anything useful and non-trivial will need to use ugly APIs).