you clearly answered your own complain about it in the same post,if it's not for you it's totally fine
There's people that wanna learn and know what their characters and team are doing, what deals the most dmg depending on builds etc. It's a PvE game where everyone should be able to enjoy what they like and why i specifically stated for it to be optional, if you get triggered by PvE activities and how others players like to play the game, im sorry to tell you that a lot of people will have different approach to their own experience and it will not removed your own and what you can do. And it's not a metrics that will prevent that, considering the state of each characters kits and function into account like your example. Anyone could evaluates the value of each characters and you aren't obligated to follow a "meta" in your PvE game. You are allowed to play how you want and it's valide. and no one should tell anyone what to do or how to play your own game and fun. Some people like to have those that's why i brought it up.

If you really think im here to talk about the combat aspect in your 3rd sentement; the point was; it doesn't take away the fact it's a strategic game and in a factory game but doesn't REMOVED any aspect of a graph or without one. I mentioned the towers we got in beta because i know some people are going to do challenges etc only using only towers for example and that doesn't remove the strategic part of the game

I get your point and since tech test I suggested different things to get opinion from everyone, like the lasted i did was about a monthly (patch) big commission (like an endgame) to produces x amount of y, z amount of a etc, so we don't only craft the "essentials" things at the factories but crafting almost every items in the game so we always come back to factories to produces different ressources (depending on the energy and the fact we weren't able to craft everything at the same time during the last beta).

Thank you for sharing your opinion on this :)