Like so many things in Factorio, what starts out costly and hard becomes much less so, as you learn what to do and scale up a factory that can support doing it. Which is exactly the kind of effort that should get a meaningful reward, IMO. I agree that the tech itself is not the reward, in the way something like productivity research is. But to me that's what makes it more meaningful and interesting.Stargateur wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 2:22 pmYou talk like legendary stuff come free once you get the research, you pay for legendary, it's very costly and hard to do. The tech is not really a reward like a productivity bonus. It's just "you can maybe get legendary thing now" that not really a reward.
I won't mention here the not-so-hard ways to get different things in legendary quality, because you haven't asked and you might want to discover it for yourself. If you want to know, it's easy to find, though.