Constructive critism would be appreciated.
To your points:
So you are making the recipe easier
This is not the case, we're restoring the vanilla recipe which is in our opinion more expensive.
buffing the arguable already to high damage
I admit this point could be very true for a vanilla game without any additional stronger enemies, in the configuration we're playing the laser turrets need to be that much stronger. Moreover please do not forget that in exchange we're reducing the damage of the personal defense turrets.
I would read your "critism" as that it would be nice to have an ingame configuration to adjust the values manually.