this i happening when having mod like infinite quality tiers because when you have your mouse over an ore patch on the gui it says what can mine it and because this mod makes all qualites have their own building it makes the game lag because it has to load so many icons. and with mods that increase the amount of mining drills multiplies.

im asking if there is any way to make it hide the mining drills in the gui?

I could add an option to mark the quality variants as hidden, though that would make it harder to use planners (eg. upgrade planner) on them, since you couldn't manually select the quality variants then.

If you have a mod that lets you use the picker to add entities to planners ( https://mods.factorio.com/mod/upgrade-planner-toggle-entity-with-pipette ), this isn't a big issue (you can select the base entity as the target, and it will be automatically converted into the correct quality variant), but otherwise you couldn't upgrade a hidden entity to eg. another quality with the upgrade planner.

This would afaik be the only way to hide the mining drill variants from the ore tooltips.