I use turret creeping only at the "beginning", to gather some alien artifacts from small nests.
Since artifacts will not be used for (weapon, or any) research, I wouldn't need to do it any more, as I usually wipe out any (yes even the bigger ones) nest with just cluster grenades / combat robots ...

Your biggest problem with nightvision is that you're trying to simultaneously address 2 design goals:

(1) Nightvision should improve the appearance of dark areas
(2) Areas the player lit should still look accurate

In real life, you only wear night vision when you go into dark areas. In a brightly ...

The solution for the mods that span multiple versions seems easy, keep the current behavior but allow multiple listings of versions, eg
"factorio_version": ["0.13","0.14"]
or allow multiple versions when a range is specified
"dependencies": ["base >= 0.13.17", base <= 0.14.00"]
Just do like ...

Since 0.13 brought blueprint books I can keep the inventory almost empty and make use of the construction bots to do everything.

It happened many times that when I designed a new railway line or a station I put every single signal in a wrong way because with ghosts you don't have the helper to ...

Tried the integrated update feature and the game crashed after the download, but it seem to be updated now.
Attached the log file.