First of all I want to say I love this mod, the only gripe I have at the moment is that it clogs up the tech tree for me, therefore an option to have more recipes unlock automatically without researching it would be great

The issue is that I already only use tech nodes where needed. (To prevent recipes from getting unlocked before their ingredients are available.)
However, I will make it so tech nodes get unlocked as soon as they become available (probably as a setting); they will still take space in the tech tree, but they should never be visible in orange. Thanks for the suggestion :D