Hey! Sorry for my slow response. You are right, the attempts are not affected by mining speed.
It does seem better if they were though. The current handling is because there isn't a way to measure how much ore a specific drill has produced, so I've been handling them as other secondary entities that have to be estimated (like inserters). But I wasn't thinking about how they do have speed and productivity bonuses, so we could bump up the quality upgrade attempts based on that.
It seems like a nice change so I'll work on it.
FYI the updates for the mod are only landing for factorio 2.1, unfortunately I don't see a way to support both factorio 2.0 and 2.1 at the same time.