Polished, but uninteresting skyblock

So far (got some of the Star items but haven't gotten deep into the harder items of the Star), this pack's been alright, but boring.
Firstly, the resource generation can be interesting at times, even if repetitive. For instance, I made a setup to convert cobble to end stone so I could farm draconium. That's the highlight of my resource gen however, and other than that it's been the original but boring GeOres, as well as the overused but sorta interesting Ex Nihlio (or whatever the port/remake used here is)
However, a lot of the progression to the Star just isn't pleasant or satisfying. Although hard to make pleasant and satisfying progression due to their requirements opposing each other, I expect at least one of them to be done, but it isn't. The Star, due to it's nature, forces you into the same gameplay path each mod offers by default, which can be okay in a simpler pack where such isn't needed to live in the world, but in a pack with such a set end goal and deep progression requirements for some of the more repetitive mods (looking at you, Antimatter Pellets) I'm just not happy, as the points in progression chosen are either after you get almost all the useful stuff, or before you get any useful stuff, meaning you're either doing too much or too little to enjoy it.
I will say, this pack is surprisingly optimized, running on 8GB of ram decently well even when I have Discord and Youtube open.