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Hi!
Welcome, you amazing community of The Amazing Game, especially you Wube Software lads!
So I haven't been following the amazing game for a year or so; only downloading latest update every few months but not the forum, so some suggestions are already or to some extent implemented, at least in some mod.

TL;DR

make armor equipment be orientation-vague, or rotatable in other words

What?

I'm thinking of using capacity or weight as a size measure more than laying out pieces around; as such, highly expect this to be a mod as it violates the vanilla feeling of the game
the grid would still be displayed (think of an arbitrarily large grid like a math xy thing), but max size is the same
equipment of unequal dimensions may look something funny in the end, but it should lock the orientation of those whose width and height are identical, like laser turrets should not rotate.

Why?

fit as many equipments as possible? Who doesn't like more power?!

I agree! it would make things like uncommon spidertrons (and everything with uneven grid size) a lot more useful now I kind of just skip them and only use them if I can't get a rare one.
Here's the grid of an uncommon spidertron. there is no way right now to have 2 fission reactors and more than 1 exoskeleton in the grid because nothing is rotatable.
There is also a row in the middle (filled by solar panels) that would be really nice to have some extra personal batteries in there rotated by 90 degrees.

Equipment specifically can't be rotated as part of the puzzle that is equipment grids.

There is, of course, a mod that lets you do it anyway.

I wish "puzzle" of equipment grid would be more hard with hole and different shape than just square and rectangle. (Nightvision should be 1v1 ! )