Warehousing is one of very few mods with endgame items that use wood. This prevents automation.

How about switching the recipes to using iron chests instead which can be automated?

Thanks for an awesome mod.

chop a bunch of trees with robots and auto trash them, after you have enough wood in your logistics system there is no more problems with automating their construction.

or use another mod that grows trees, like bio industries.

Tree plant and lumberjack would be a good combo for automating wood recipes.

Change the recipe from wood chests to steel chests.
All you need is 7zip ... roaming>factorio>mods>( 7zip ) warehousing>[prototype]>[recipe.lua] ... find-replace "wood-chest" with "steel-chest"

Wood is no longer required, as of Warehousing 0.2.0.

I liked the wood cost! It was a fun way to spend those early-game chests and it helped explain a bit about the internal logistics of the warehouses.

Can there be an option to use the old recipes?

I'd rather not. If you really want to get rid of old wood, you can burn it in a furnace or boiler setup, or build a small recipe override mod that adds wood back to the Warehousing recipes.