Appended: There's no advancement curve with new materials.
Found bauxite? Use the sodium hydroxide byproduct of your plastic making to make alumina and then make aluminum plates! Now you have aluminum! Hey, aluminum is used to make module casings, let's make th--oh. Module contacts require gold.
This is a constant. There are very, very few instances where FINALLY accessing some new material actually leads to making something new. It just leads to "oh dammit, I need XXX too?!"
And then you go get XXX. And then you discover that the next component required to make the thing you've had researched for three days is YYY, which requires ZZZ combined with NNN, and to get NNN you have to find Rare Resource PPP which takes another twelve steps of refinement.
I sure do have a lot of neat stuff researched. Too bad I can't make even a quarter of it because everything is so interdependent that you have to find literally EVERYTHING just to make one module. I keep trying VERY HARD to give this a chance, but every single milestone of conquering a new resource process becomes a wet fart when I discover that, no, I still can't make anything.