Manual Automated Research Setup Hell

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Manual Automated Research Setup Hell

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TL;DR
Group technologies based on required science, eg: all sciences that require ONLY red fall into the same group, all sciences that require BOTH red and green fall in into the same group, etc.

What?
Usability
I'm specifically talking about a way to let all technologies that share a specific science to be triggered by the same condition
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Visibility?
A way to tell how many times a tech is already present in the research condition queue, not sure what to call it.
In this hypothetical example blue belt tech is present in the research condition queue 3 times and elevated rails tech is present in the queue 2 times, since no other tech has a number next to it they're not present in the queue.
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Ease of use and navigation
Ability to collapse a group into a single card to make navigating the list less painful (I know I used the circuit network button, but it's just to show that there's something to press)
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Why?
Automated research is a great feature, but setting it up makes me want to end it all because I know if I want to change something later on I will basically have to redo the entire process all over again.

But this way I will know which techs appear in the queue the wrong amount of times which makes troubleshooting a breeze and when I want to change conditions I have to do it for ~15 groups instead of over 150 individual technologies

This is a short video of me scrolling through the research condition list, fun stuff.
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