First: I do agree with the lack of reasons to use Gun Turrets, it wans't good before, but it is even worse now... At least before we could "double research" the damage bonuses...
The game is all about logistics and automation. Laser turrets just needs a power pole. It has better hitpoints, more ...

Buff belts, don't nerf bots. And I'm a bot hater too, I love belts. Just buff them, or make another tier.
AND GIVE OUR GODDAMN COMPRESSION BACK! hahahahahahaha

I think that your question is pretty easily responded with: Compensate bot ease of use/lack of complexity making complex belt systems ...

What is the meaning of increased performance from belts if now we are going to use bots because belts sucks?
Come on! Even miners not compressing belts? How do you feel about splitters between miners? I feel sick.
Using splitters feel cheaty just like underneathies, so, if we aren't to use them ...

Another thing I want to add to the suggestions, now with the possibility of adding circuits to stations and disable them with conditions we should be able to determine if the train will skip a disable/unavailable station(default now) or wait in the current one until the other one is enabled again.

I am a little late to the party... I don't know if those have been asked (7 pages are a lot to read) but...
Suggestion 1: Option to name/rename trains, just like stations it would be nice to name them for their purpose and/or sort them in the "list" of trains.
Suggestion 2: Like our beloved KoS ...

Now all stock needs is the functionality from 'Upgrade planner'. Manually replacing yellow transport then red later in my sotck save is soooo tedious and error prone.
It is not on our to do list, but I like the idea of Upgrade planner, so it might become vanilla future some day.

Sadly the only ...

Please, don't stop at 1.0!
I know that it won't be much profitable, but at least consider paid expansions, do not discard all the ideas you had because they are new features. I would gladly pay for expansions, I already gifted my friends with Factorio so many times as it feels as a nice reward for ...