Well, because the aliens are the biters. Not people. This is clearly meant to be a planet without intelligent life forms, being hostile to any actual working of the land which produces pollution.

For me 'it can be rather tedious to set up' is basically the summary of factorio. You're making and designing your own little systems and machines here with pretty basic tools. Replacing any systems with bigger overarching machines just seems not in the spirit of the game to me. If you want to speed ...

Should we put information on the wiki concerning changes of items or buildings in the pre-releases?
For example, since 11.14, the Assembling Machine 3 can fit 6 ingredients instead of 4.
Is it ok to put that in the wiki, maybe as a side-note or something?
I'm sure people playing the pre-realeases ...