You can just turn biters off or put them on peaceful mode. Then do what you want. Also, I'd advise you ignore the popup if it bothers you. It comes up only once per game.
Everything in that game can be automated to minimize hustle, if you'd like it to be. Something I found fun was learing to figure out how to automate everything. For example, a drill outputs coal in a direction. The coal can go directly onto a belt, into a chest, into a smelter, or into another machine. Knowing that, you can figure out how to keep the coal drills operating continuously, without using inserters.
BTW, coal inserters will feed themselves coal if they are pulling coal off of a coal belt. So it's useful for feeding coal into your boilers for generating electricity, but not much else.
Finally, do you have evidence the game devs want you to feel bad? I think they want to produce something that challenges their users who enjoy challenges. You are free to respond to a challenge with frustration. But casting blame on the devs for your negative emotional response to their creation is unfounded.
You are wrong. Yes, on the left side B is applied to A, then C is applied to the result (AB). However, on the right side, C is applied to B, then the result (BC) is applied to A. A is still the left most patch in both cases. BC could depend on (the output context of) A so it wouldn't make sense to apply A to BC! BC is applied to A. A(BC)
So you are saying that applying patches is not commutative? I was assuming A(BC) == (BC)A. What makes you think that the result should be different depending on the order?
For reference, round trip time to geostationary orbit is 240 ms. But that is 36 thousand km. Compare that to the ISS which orbits less than 500 km up, so the round trip time is less than 1.25 ms.
This is exactly what intuitionistic logic is all about. Instead of doing operations on variables which represent the truth value of a proposition, we can do operations on variables which represent the justification for a proposition. All we have to do is forego the law of excluded middle (A or not A is true). Which makes sense because we can't say we always have justification for A or have justification to refute A. Sometimes there are questions you can ask which you can never find the answer for or constrict justification.
Everything in that game can be automated to minimize hustle, if you'd like it to be. Something I found fun was learing to figure out how to automate everything. For example, a drill outputs coal in a direction. The coal can go directly onto a belt, into a chest, into a smelter, or into another machine. Knowing that, you can figure out how to keep the coal drills operating continuously, without using inserters.
BTW, coal inserters will feed themselves coal if they are pulling coal off of a coal belt. So it's useful for feeding coal into your boilers for generating electricity, but not much else.
Finally, do you have evidence the game devs want you to feel bad? I think they want to produce something that challenges their users who enjoy challenges. You are free to respond to a challenge with frustration. But casting blame on the devs for your negative emotional response to their creation is unfounded.