I resisted it for a while for the same reason. But after a few hours it felt like the best parts of working :)

Maybe try again? I played satisfactory at first and thought factorio looked stupid, but having a roboport network for the first time felt soo goooooood

My friend was the same way, largely due Factorio being in 2D. He was able to get into Satisfactory due to it's 3D nature.

I had the same experience, but the other way around. I started losing interest in Satisfactory after I found out the map was static.

I played Factorio first and since my friends are "done with Factorio" (not sure what's wrong with them but I think I need new friends) I agreed to play satisfactory with them. It was fun for a couple of hours then it just started tobuild up rage inside of me because of so many strange or stupid design decisions the devs made. When we got to trains and I started building that was when I hit my rage limit and boiled over. My god those stations are huge and the unloading was the most stupid shit ever. Then all the small finicky tricks you can do to slim your builds... And this you want to learn/do since blueprints are small. Don't get me started... Never started the game again after we were done but have a couple of hundred more hours in Factorio since then :)