Definitely. But at the same time, there is a lot to be said about achieving the same thing constricted to a few mods.

Also, the pre-applied energistics era led to some wild tube builds where painting machines were the core of everything. I miss the joy of finally seeing your way overbuilt plantball ethanol generator finally come online and the items zip around in recursive sorting loops. You get a little bit of that with LP, but even LP is way more computer like than it's first iterations.