How automation should be done

I'll preface by saying I'm writing this after completing Chapter 2, which isn't very far into progression.
As someone who doesn't really like how automation (tech) packs are done in Minecraft, the beginning of this pack managed to keep my attention for the entirety of my play session. Everything is stripped down to the bare essentials, just you and an infinite resource you have to manipulate to progress (Being a weirdo that enjoys incremental games on ROBLOX, this really entices me). You can get the first few automated parts going in just a minute or two of gameplay, which is fantastic, and all the basic components are incredibly simple and cheap to craft so you're spending your time figuring out how to actually automate things rather than tediously collecting the items needed.
If there is a point of tedium it is the power logistics. For me, the energy cables just did not do anything and I had to use machines with outputs set (manually for each block) to transfer power.