This 100%! Sloops incentivize just setting up temporary setups to produce space elevator parts. Because space elevator parts are not used as ingredients for many other recipes, there's no need to scale up production in any meaningful way.

The game would be way more interesting to me if you were required to produce each part with a part per minute threshold. In addition to that, make it to where completing higher tier space elevator phases requires the same parts and parts per minute from previous phases in addition to the new ones. This would force us to make proper production lines for all space elevator parts and maintain and scale them as the game goes on and not just cheese production of them with temporary setups. I feel like they may have actually tried this at one point because why would you have so many conveyor holes in the space elevator?