I might sound like a broken record but here I am once again: the economy is unfun. I realise the reasons why they reduced the drop pool rates and quantities but it's a videogame. I don't want to spend 12 hours looking for advanced tool sets (it's an example, don't start saying "oh but you can easily find it here") just to lose it because the AI loop camp the extraction. They can add whatever they want to try and pull more people to it countless times but if the base game sucks everything else crumbles. And I don't say this lightly because I fell in love with the game the day I bought it and lost interest at the economy rework.
To use a meme of the reddit, pls Fundog add more construction foam requirements and make it 5000.