Maybe some longer tiles that serve like some sort of automation could incentivize not putting everything in the front. Like if something is big or long but can make a specific type of food for you and leave it at the end, that could kill 2 birds with 1 stone with the storage problem.
Like a long conveyor belt that's like 5 tiles long and makes fish burgers for example. You have to put the fish and bread on one end and then it leaves a burger on the other, that would make some more interesting personalized building of things I'd think!
Hope that helps if you plan on continuing the game, and good luck if you do!