Definitely a top contender. I'm a big fan of the factory style game genre. I'd say the biggest problems here are the logistics aren't really capable of making a sufficiently expansive factory that can produce all the various recipes well.
Yeah I had some trouble figuring out where to draw the line between automation and collectathon. Mostly people tend to just make a factory to generate passive income and another one to experiment for discovering stuff, which I'm actually ok with.
