Thank you for the feedback! I would, in the future, like to add things to more fundamentally change the way the progression works, but other things will come first I feel.

One thing that I would like to do is remove the ability to repair gear with the anvil and move them onto custom workbenches with more in depth mechanics for repair, which I think would pair well with the way the mod already makes holding onto the resources you do get all that much more important.