look, i'm not the brightest for production alchemy...
I have started to play this game last winter btw, and because my laptop resilution is small most of my solutions were area-oriented. As you know, production alchemy doesn't care about area, since it's already constrained as is. Instructions are more parallel to cycles than cost, so solutions like these  where the full area of the machine is not utilized are pretty much sub-optimal
Thanks for coming to my ted-talk. Oh and have i metioned that my potential in arcaea is 12.07? (Sorry if you don't get the last sentence, but hey, the average is somewhere 11 something among seasoned players! and if you got it, sorry for flexing)