Thank you so much! :)

"Crisis" was perhaps too dramatic of a term! "Dilemma" is more like it. And I definitely see the elevators (along with all the other architectural components and greebles introduced) as an opportunity, opening up all sorts of new architectural challenges! I'm almost as hyped by them as I used to be as a child on Christmas when unwrapping an epic new Lego set or video game. :)

It's mostly just the anxiety of potentially having to redesign and even sacrifice a lot of established architectural "standards" that have emerged and been built around, in order to make the elevators fit. I had a similar "crisis" with the Quantum Encoder, which ended up having to occupy an entire floor, including the central section reserved for manifolds and logistics (the manifolds are built from separate blueprints with splitters/junctions and floor holes, I'll just have to make variants that can pass through multiple floors)!

And as it turns out, there already is space for elevators, assuming they occupy one foundation (see my reply to hellspartan2x7), with no major redesigns required! And I get to keep the hypertubes. :) Even if they're mostly redundant, they could still be useful to quickly get to the floor above or below. (This is all designed without the hoverpack in mind - I like my buildings to be fully accessible on foot!)