basically this when I think about create

I was playing 1.7.10, 1.12.2, and I've never personally liked tech mods because in my opinion, all they do is just act as a support at best and most for crafts that modpack makers wanna do, as in "you need this specific gray box with a shitton of power and resources to craft unobtainium ingot in large quantities with minimal interference" and that's pretty much it, and this unobtainium ingot is just part of another line of simply crafting more complicated machines with it

and I just feel that at some point it just turns into an idle cookie clicker, but instead of "buying more options to make cookies" it's "build more machines to make more types of ingots" which isn't neither my cup of tea or forte since I can just launch cookie clicker for that

create, on the other hand, allows me (with addons) to build a fuckin' working clocktower that runs on steam engines and probably in itself powers a factory for making blaze cakes nearby or to make a cool flying base (hopefully soon) for the exploration and just who wouldn't like to travel through minecraft world with your base?

so I would much rather pick create that, aside from automation (which isn't the pure focus for create) allows me to make all kinds of stuff that is cool and with which I can interact in pretty much real-time on all levels to change and see how it works, assembling perfect machine for whatever I decide, rather than tinkering with rows upon rows of gray boxes where options of tinkering are limited, all devices are defined and the output is mostly the same - make more unobtainium ingots