I would have to agree with the OP - the suggestion would be to make Artillery depend on the Tank. That way we avoid breaking the user experience for new users - and it also shows how researching the tank will give you a awesome artillery cannon!

+1 - We need to make belt compression easier, not harder for new players. Sideloading should work, having to use a splitter is counterintuitive for how it SHOULD work. As far as having inserters automatically compress belts, I'm mixed on this - although I think it is unintuitive to have idle machine...

CONFIRMED FIXED. Holy Wow Batman - that's the fastest dev team in the whole world! Is there a FFF about your dev/build/production pipeline?

Just tried doing the same steps to reproduce the bug - except this time I zoomed in all the way to see if it's a graphics sub-system or a update queue subsystem. Same hard crash.

Hard crash on OSX after selecting a large area for deconstruction. Crash reproduced 2x on my machine.

Screenshot of area:

Save file: https://cl.ly/0f3y3f0m2E15