I wouldn't consider this to be a bug.
You don't NEED to have power poles connecting everything. Its handy yes.
But you can just as easily set up a solar supply of electricity in that grid. power polls shouldn't be invincible in this game just because it can shut down your outpost.

you can easily turret creep with just regular turrets as well. just need to make the initial setup a little further back.

Compared to other resources at the same game settings, oil is in far shorter supply and is burned through quickly. I suggest dramatically increasing the richness of oil fields to bring them in line with iron and copper. I think that iron, copper, coal and stone richness is way to high given the cur...

So where to begin, I currently have some time off from work, so there is plenty of time to go around. A majority of it these last few days has been ~ 70% factorio mixed in with a few other things to keep me alive bla bla bla. I have only recently heard of this game from Destiny. or Steven Bonell II ...