I'm stuck on 0.18 until I reach 1000 SPM. Real soon now, I just need to improve my iron throughput to relieve a bottleneck in flying robot frame production then I can turn to working out the rocket control units not meeting production quota.
0.18 was just Release Candidate for 1.0 - the only feature added on release is Spidertron, the rest is just fixes. I think you should update.
They even made 0.18 mods to be 1.0.0 compatible this way the game releases with all mods already up to date.
I just finished a 10K SPM base. Finishing a base that big is like finally releasing a product that was in development for a year. I don't know what to do with myself now that its all finished.