Provide a way to make bots transparent

[bits-orio]

For dense and late game bases, bots can become a hinderance to gameplay because they can literally hide everything else underneath them.

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As a solution we are thinking of using this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/transparent-robots
But it makes you choose a transparency value at the start of the game.

Its not ideal. I feel something like this should really be done at the Factorio level, where by simply clicking bot layer button should hide bots. Or maybe provide some option to choose transparency. I know the ux for all this doesn't fall into existing patterns in a straight forward way, but I feel something like this should really be implemented somehow by Factorio devs.

Hope this gets looked at.

[InUniverse]

Funnily enough, something for just this situation has been added recently. Check the toolbar for "hide tall entities".