Thanks for the notes.
I will investigate the plastic recipe/GDIW issue.
I'm not fundamentally concerned productivity chains are too long. My concern is more around theming. I may add settings (or a cross-cutting setting) to allow productivity on all intermediate recipes at some point. For the moment....
I think I will probably default PCBs to allow productivity. I was hesitant at first, thematically (i.e. 1 substrate in, 1 PCB out), but substrate isn't exactly a "unit" itself, it could be shaped/cut slightly differently to improve productivity, so I will probably do this.
For Ferric Chloride and Vinyl Chloride, this was more around keeping true to to real world input/output ratios, at some level. I may rely on a setting for these. Still thinking on it tho :)