If enough players want this I would implement the 2nd option with new stack threshold signals overriding count thresholds for items. I've asked a different thing some time ago, which couldn't be implemented. My problem was quite the same as here and this solution would also work greatly for me, so ...

Bummer. But at least I made it on the "rejected features" list

Can we get an additional "Request Threshold" Signal, which sets the amount of missing items in percent? If we have a station requesting different items in vastly different quantities, it's always a problem (at least for me?) to set the correct threshold amount. Setting it too high and one ...