now evidently there is some object state on the inserters that is not exposed in the UI anywhere I can see
^This is the part that is broken in my view.

The UI does not provide any information about the flipped status when outputting to anything not a perpendicular belt, nor an indication that the ...

What did you do?
Tried to build a copy of a design that contains an inserter grabbing chunks from a perpendicular belt fed from both left and right, and the lane grabbing preference is critical to the crusher design not reaching deadlock.
What happened?
The inserters sometimes have a different ...

Just encountered this in 2.0.23 trying to parameterize a train station, inserters with override 10 get set to 1 upon placing it. Also cannot successfully set the stack override to be a parameter even though it is listed and the checkbox appears to work, upon saving the parameter is erased/ignored ...

What did you do?
Added a Shattered Planet station to a platform without any conditions as a waypoint to travel towards it to collect asteroid chunks.

What happened?
As soon as the platform reaches Solar System Edge, it immediately turns around back towards Aquilo going to the next station after ...