I should have answered this properly, sorry...
The intial versions of this mod, and the 0.17 versions did include the direct from molten recipes for bronze/brass/invar/cobalt-steel.
The main issue with them at that state, was the mess with ratios, productivity, and clutter.
It is still on my to-do list to re-evaluate these recipes with the potential to bring them back, if i did though, it would be for coils only, instead of having access to them early on.
As it stands, the cobalt-steel one is there for reference and was left in the background to allow those already using it to keep doing so, while not adding it to tech for new people to unlock (i think enough time has passed that i need to actually visit this soon)