The biggest hurdle is the damn UI. Factorio showed everyone how an amazing UI can make a really complex game enjoyable.

Satisfactory's UI is almost unusable. You're constantly scrolling through lists that are unnecessarily long and essential information is broken up over several screens. There are countless bugs that force you to do the same thing over and over again just to get it right.

Then there is the design of EVERYTHING that won't tell you it's exact use until you click on it. In Factorio you instantly saw what a machine did because of either it's inputs (which you would see all the time because it has a top-down-view) or by using the ALT-mode. Here you can't even see which ports are out- or inputs most of the time.

There is so much bad and faulty design in the way of creating a factory. It's just not fun.

The biggest hurdle is the damn UI. Factorio showed everyone how an amazing UI can make a really complex game enjoyable. Satisfactory's UI is almost unusable. You're constantly scrolling through lists that are unnecessarily long and essential information is broken up over several screens. There are countless bugs that force you to do the same thing over and over again just to get it right. Then there is the design of EVERYTHING that won't tell you it's exact use until you click on it. In Factorio you instantly saw what a machine did because of either it's inputs (which you would see all the time because it has a top-down-view) or by using the ALT-mode. Here you can't even see which ports are out- or inputs most of the time. There is so much bad and faulty design in the way of creating a factory. It's just not fun.