All of this is great, thank you for caring about all the minor details. I feel like the only QoL missing in vanilla now is being able to flip blueprints, but I guess not all entities are perfectly symmetrical and it could be very hard to implement.

> The solution we have decided, which some might consider a 'hack' is that we simply don't make biters collide with other biters. In the engine this was a rather simple change, and was already possible just using normal mods. The result speaks for itself:

This reminds me of how command & conquer ...

I wanted to test a few things, so opened the sandbox scenario, said yes to all the poupup windows, and started messing around.
At a point I "crafted" lamps until my inventory was full, then clicked on one of the lamps to have it go on the cursor, then I pressed q to clear the cursor, and got the ...

Another instance
https://imgur.com/9lJP9XX

I'm in a multiplayer game not as host, if I press ctrl+c to bring up the copy paste tool, hold the left mouse button to select something(in my case it was something like two assembly machines, a medium power pole and a few inserters), release the left mouse button and quickly press esc just after ...

One thing I'd like about idea 4 is the possibility of having the action bar shared between games, so far the only way to have a consistent hotbar across games, apart from manually setting it up each time, is to have a small script mod that automatically sets the filters up. Disjointing the shortcuts ...